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Your parent's point is that at least some of the bloat is not actually Windows. There was a time when Firefox occupied tens of megabytes in RAM. Today it occupi
by sliverstorm 13y ago
Your parent's point is that at least some of the bloat is not actually Windows. There was a time when Firefox occupied tens of megabytes in RAM. Today it occupies at least 500MB at all times, for me. So good luck with your 512MB Windows XP machine of yore- and that one isn't the fault of Windows.
- becauseBloat 13y agoAn application installed at the option of the end user is not subject to the same rigorous requirements that an, oftentimes, compulsory operating system is subject to. Especially when the operating system costs money, and lots of it.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI still don't see how Firefox bloating proves your point about Windows.
- becauseBloat 13y agoMaybe it has something to do with the background service Firefox has to bundle with their Windows installer now. You know, because Windows registries and Windows user policies are borderline retarded. But I agree, I'm really not sure why you decided bring Firefox into this discussion either.
- sliverstorm 13y agodubfan was the one who brought up browsers.
- kuschku 13y agoFirefox with 30 tabs and several Youtube videos uses about 334MB So, while surfing just 5-8 websites at a time you'd have enough memory. Sometimes I'm even using a computer from 1996 which struggles even with xp – it's good enough as a compile server (Pentium II).