Archived Chrome passes 25% market share, IE and Firefox slip (venturebeat.com)
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Archived Chrome passes 25% market share, IE and Firefox slip (venturebeat.com)
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[–] creep 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So, because you don't have a use for that many tabs, obviously, no one does? Try to have a little more vision.
[–] gamesjunkie ago
Never said that. Although I should probably have said that I couldn't think of a logical reason to have that many tabs open. So, my bad. I'm just pointing out that complaining about one's computer chugging while extreme multitasking is taking place is idiotic (as is the expectation that 200 tabs will use the same amount of RAM as 3 tabs). At that point, it's not the program's fault, it's the computer's fault for not meeting the user's expectations, in which case, it's on the user to fix it.
[–] creep 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I get what you're saying, but I don't think any modern browser handles RAM efficiently.
Why does a background tab need as much memory as a foreground tab?
This question is the same regardless of browser. If I have 10 or 1000 background tabs, there has to be a better way to manage them.
Can't they be completely unloaded from memory after X minutes, and essentially treated like a bookmark, to be loaded the next time they are viewed? How much RAM does a simple text URL need to consume? How much RAM does 1000 lines of text use? A few kilobytes. Not a lot.
I think it's the software's fault for that sort of reckless and sloppy consumption.