[GTALUG] Firefox is a pig

[Mel Wilson]

On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 12:02 -0500, David Thornton wrote:
> 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?

I start to doubt that it even has to do with the "headline" site.
Ad-supported sites will be obliged to serve up whatever their
advertisers decide to serve.  I can imagine a lot of room for
badly-designed javascript, videos and Ajax there.

	Mel.