[GTALUG] Firefox is a pig

[David Thornton]

I dunno, I am not too quick to jump on blaming the browser as "memory
leaky". I am willing to bet some sites are not built with your memory in
mind. Consider sites that just load and load javascript objects ad
nauseum.  Should the browser say : "ok that's enough web site, no more java
script objects for you" ? and if it's a reasonable X for a single site ...
and you have 300 sites open .. is 300X ok for your computer?

This is not a simple problem, so I think it's ok to ask a user to "be
considerate" of their own memory/ system resources (heaven forbid the user
knowa a smidge about how her/his computer works )

David

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 17 November 2014 11:03, David Thornton <northdot9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Browser != OS.
>>
>> _even_ Chrome gets confused from time to time.
>>
>> I don't think it's too much to ask to just "reboot" your browser.
>>
>
> But it's also not too much to ask to hope for the browser to not be
> *too* dramatically memory leaky.
>
> And It sure seems like the browsers have gotten memory leaky, even
> without resorting to Flash and Java.  It looks to me like Javascript, which
> is pretty well mandatory these days what with all the "web applications"
> using AJAX and such, can chew great gobs of memory without hardly
> trying.
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