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Well, we're definitely at the point where my Web Browser uses more memory than my Operating System. I'm impressed, a great deal of this talk could be applied to
by zeta0134 10y ago
Well, we're definitely at the point where my Web Browser uses more memory than my Operating System. I'm impressed, a great deal of this talk could be applied to modern browsers with a surprising degree of accuracy.
I love looking at the feature list and seeing what actually caught on (Audio Playback) and the laundry list of features that seemed like good ideas at the time, but had no place in the browser. CoolTalk eventually got implemented as VOIP, and chat features showed up on websites once JavaScript got good enough to facilitate it, but nearly everything else has fallen by the wayside.
- digi_owl 10y agoWell there is webrtc, so the cooltalk idea came back to roost.
- skuunk1 10y agoChromebook user here. The Web Browser IS my Operating System. ;)
- dijit 10y agoI disagree. Your operating system is what allows chrome to be your userland.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoIsn't Linux under there somewhere?
- zeta0134 10y agoLinux is the kernel. The semantics of this can be argued all day, but the kernel is not the operating system. It is simply the tiny piece of software that allows processes to run and manages memory and hardware access. The operating system is the whole collection of software that allows the User to manage their system. It necessarily includes the kernel, but it is much more than just that one component. I don't consider ChromeOS to be a Linux desktop any more than I consider my Android smartphone to be a Linux desktop, or an iPhone to be a BSD system. They happen to share a kernel, but that's really where the similarities end as an end user.
- anonbanker 10y agoGecko has always used more ram than the OS. On my p133 with 32MB of RAM (running mandrake linux, Enlighenment DR0.15 CVS built weekly), Mozilla milestones would constantly swap out to disk while running, due to the massive RAM requirements. My current KDE Plasma 5 system (Calculate Linux) uses about 300MB idle. Firefox (Same gecko core) is using 464MB of RAM right now with 7 tabs open. I'm currently building servo (with browser.html) for the first time, and I expect similar RAM requirements.
- anonbanker 10y agoUpdate: today's build of servo (./mach run --release -r --browserhtml) uses about 300MB of RAM with the same 7 tabs open. So better than Firefox.