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You don't open 100 apps on your computer and then complain about memory usage. Running 100 tabs at the same time, all of which may be running live JS processes,
by tomkarlo 14y ago
You don't open 100 apps on your computer and then complain about memory usage. Running 100 tabs at the same time, all of which may be running live JS processes, is about the same. It's a perfectly valid usage pattern but it's also going to eat a lot of memory. It's not like driving with your parking brake on, but it's like loading your car up with its maximum passenger capacity and then complaining that it's accelerating more slowly.
- kintamanimatt 14y agoI've done it before with earlier versions of Firefox on a system with fewer resources that yielded a substantially lower memory footprint. It is very possible to do a lot with less memory.
- k3n 14y agoBut this has been discussed ad nauseam, and it's unproductive to keep complaining about it. The fact should be obvious, at least by now, that sandboxing uses more resources. If you're fine with that, great! If not, do something to fix it or use a different browser.
- tomkarlo 14y agoIt's possible, but there are always competing goals - speed, security, reliability, features, memory usage. When capacity on one is growing quickly (and cheaply), it's not surprising it doesn't get the same priority as some of the others. In particular, I'm not sure how many extra users you'd get by reducing memory footprint versus adding features.
- nickknw 14y agoThis sounds like it was possibly some time ago. If so, don't discount the effect of having less resource-intensive sites too.