Web browser resource use in kde4

My testing was not extensive. I opened 2 tabs in each of 4 browsers and only looked at cpu use after about a minute. One tab was used for gmail and the other for hulu. These should test what most people want to do. I also went to random other sites to see what happened.
Chromium 13, Firefox 6, Opera 11.5, and Konqueror(using kde 4.7 and KHTML) were used.
None of the browsers had a problem with watching flash videos on hulu with Konqueror having the best transition to/from fullscreen flash and opera 2nd best. Firefox was good and Chromium not so good. Konqueror would use the most resources when starting a flash video, likely due to the flashplugin requiring a wrapper.
Gmail was best on Chromium. Konqueror would only show the basic view and would not render in standard view.
In general, konqueror used the least resources except when loading and was quickest to release them. The others all used about the same resources with Opera releasing them quicker. Chromium would use fewer resources to start but would be reluctant to release them. Firefox was good but not great. None crashed or slowed the system significantly.
Konqueror was slowest on sites with flash and fastest on sites without, using the least resources(on average) in a kde environment but having issues rendering some sites. Chromium is slow to release resources and I would not use it on constrained systems but was quite fast. Opera was good for resource use and speed. Firefox was slowest but not by much and is very good for random websites.

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