Show me a modern and widely-used web browser that's not a memory hog.
(IE6 isn't modern; Chrome, Opera and Safari aren't widely used)

It's not hard to get FF 3 up to 250 or 300MB.

It's better than FF 1, 1.5 and 2 though. I don't need 3GB in my machine
just to run without swapping anymore - 1GB for FF < 3, 1GB for
Thunderbird 1.x and 2.x, 1GB for everything else!

IMO 512MB on an XP box & modern web browser is borderline unusable,
especially when you consider that most anti-malware packages are
resource pigs.

Carl Houseman wrote:
> FYI, on Vista SP1 32-bit with 3GB and the same 18 tabs opened
> immediately after IE startup.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
[email protected]

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

Reply via email to