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The problem is not the browser. The problem is that modern web pages use a lot of functionality, use a lot of JS libraries and thus require that "full-fledged p
by diegocg 12y ago
The problem is not the browser. The problem is that modern web pages use a lot of functionality, use a lot of JS libraries and thus require that "full-fledged programming environment". A browser that does not implement it will just not be able to visit modern web pages. A page such as cnn.com weights 2M - and images are just 450 KB of it. Gmail and G+ are between 7 and 8 MB.
Modern web pages are programs and many are becoming bloated, and there is nothing magical a browser can do to avoid it.
- nirvdrum 12y agoThe other half to this story is many web developers think the browser will magically clean up for them. I've lost track of how many sites I leave open in the background only to come back and find they're using > 1 GB RAM. I can always tell when it happens though because my laptop fan kicks on seemingly randomly. With a bit of profiling it's usually that these sites just constantly append to the DOM. Without using circular buffers or otherwise cleaning up, eventually the CPU gets pegged doing constant GC. JS and Web development don't obviate the need for fundamentals and good programming practices.
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