The problem is that these days, the browser tries to _be_ the operating system. A bit like what people complained about emacs back in the day.
Not sure there's much to be done about it, other than grumpy old men rants. If its really important to you, you'll need to buy yourself the same class of machine developers use, ie minimum 16GB memory 3+GHz multicore processor. Otherwise, you just have to kill off the browser every day or two (akin to doing the 3 fingered solute on good ol' DOS) to release the execessive amounts of memory. Written on 7.5 yo Netbook with 1GB memory... :). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
