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Regular users don't know or care about memory management, they don't even close old windows or tabs, its about convenience. Why should they? If a tab's "dorma
by colanderman 13y ago
Regular users don't know or care about memory management, they don't even close old windows or tabs, its about convenience.
Why should they? If a tab's "dormant", the browser can just quiesce JS timeouts and let the tab's memory get swapped out. Not a problem anymore.
That most (all?) web browsers don't do this currently isn't the user's fault.
- Touche 13y agoThat's not interesting idea, but I'm not sure any browser is designed to be able to fully restore the state of a tab that it's swapped out.
- csense 13y agoDo you even know what swapping is? The whole idea of swapping is that the OS pages out memory without the application being aware of what's happening!