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Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?



On 09/07/2010 02:55 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20100907151244.GK7461@poseidon.cocyt.us>, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> Your browser is caching
>> all the pages for each tab you use. The more the tabs, the more the
>> cache. The more the cache, the more the RAM you chew through. This is
>> fundamental to all tab-based browsers.
> 
> Same number of tabs with the same URLs.  Konqueror remains fast of light at 18 
> tabs.  Iceweasel process starts to bog down and begin churning through my RAM.  
> No javascript, large images, some flash, which both browsers render 
> (incorrectly) using gnash or a variant.
> 
> It's certainly not as bad as it has been in the past, but I think 
> characterizing Iceweasel memory usage as fundamental to having tabs ludicrous, 
> especially with the number of counter-examples around.

So you understand more of what you're talking about:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html

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