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While I do agree that Memory usage should be kept somewhat in check within reasonable boundaries, what on earth is the problem with a browser using available me
by trezor 17y ago
While I do agree that Memory usage should be kept somewhat in check within reasonable boundaries, what on earth is the problem with a browser using available memory to accomplish speed and good response time?
I use Firefox myself and not Opera, but my work laptop has 4GB of RAM and my desktop at home has 12GBs of RAM. I don't want those to go wasted if they can be put to good use.
For the memory test I'd actually rank it the opposite way, or just omit it all together.
- jpcx01 17y agoDepends. I don't consider my browser my primary application my computer so I like it to save as much memory as it can for the truly horrid memory hogs like Adobe suite and my development IDE. I have 8gb on my laptop (macbook pro), and its still not enough. On mac, there's no worse culprit than Firefox. I'll regularly need to kill it after I see it taking up 2.5GB of ram (even when all tabs are closed). Chrome might lose the micro memory usage benchmarks, but its much more stable. Even after opening/closing hundreds of tabs for days, it'll never start taking up GBs of ram.
- postfuturist 17y agoReally, memory _leaks_ are the issue. I have created a web application that needs to poll the server every few seconds. I've done everything I can to prevent memory leaks, even using a pool of reused DOM objects. I ran it for about 15 hours. At the end, Firefox 3.6 was using only 42 MB of memory while IE 8 was using over 650 MB.
- roundsquare 17y agoAgreed, long term memory usage is what they should measure. Leave the browser up for a while, come back, and compare the usage statistics.