[GTALUG] Firefox is a pig

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Clifford Ilkay wrote:

> On 11/17/2014 01:27 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> | From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com>
>>
>> | 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.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> I would like each "compartment" to be isolated and instrumented.
>
> You just described Google Chrome.

    Google Chrome slows down my machine *much* more than Firefox.

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