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i haven't tested it when it comes to ram usage, it will depend on the type of page, js etc but naturally rendering in chromewebkit tab will consume more ran than using native gecko engine, you'll be launching a second engine in memory.

this is a strictly developer's extension not meant for regular browsing, just like ietab or in some cases if a page has display problems in gecko-not necessarily requiring a newer engine as webkit is more trident-compliant than gecko, meaning some pages written to accommodate ie(especially ie6/7) will have no problems in webkit but will be misplaced or disjointed on gecko.

gecko in my opinion is still a superior engine regardless of the buzz for chrome/webkit js speed, the xul packaging is what fails it in products like firefox-something which kmeleon doesn't suffer from.. kmeleon(for windows) was the natural evolution of the original netscape which also used native widgets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6
"The Mozilla engineers decided to scrap the Communicator code and start over from scratch. All resources were bound to work on the Mozilla-based Netscape 6.0 release, which some Netscape employees still deem one of the bigger mistakes in the company's history."

another very important point about webkit that almost all 'western' journalists or reviewers overlook or fail to recognise is the rendering of unicode fonts which is quite poor compared to other engines, even ie and that's a venue where gecko rules them all
having the proper fonts installed on your system, you can compare unicode rendering between browsers on this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support#Browsers
 you will notice that webkit fails to render several scripts

while webkit is getting all the praise on pc mags, i doubt if those writers are readers of non-conventional languages and that's probably why chrome might be gaining ground in the us, euroasians and far east surfers still opt for firefox or stick with ie.

this is an interesting link, although outdated..it pretty much still applies
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/browser-coverage.html[/quote]

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