Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 09:19:09AM -0500, lrudo...@meganet.net wrote: > > We haven't heard a lot of from you, lately. Any bursr do you under your > > saddle you'ld like to talk about? > > Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well > *could* have a > bursar

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-09 Thread lrudolph
> We haven't heard a lot of from you, lately. Any bursr do you under your > saddle you'ld like to talk about? Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well *could* have a bursar under his saddle. FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Nick Thompson
@redfish. com <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory 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.

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Gillian Densmore
*caugh aka node stinks on windows cough* lol one one hand this is part of a problem with saying sure lets have stuff "Just" use a crap ton of stuff. And it'd be just realy nice for programs to be in a little box or something so as when things go wrong it doesn't blow up the machine. On the other

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Russell Standish
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

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Tom Johnson
Nick: Check out Pale Moon or Opera as browser. Tom On Dec 8, 2017 12:12 AM, "Nick Thompson" wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > > > Recently Firefox updated itself and since that time my machine – an > elderly W7 -- has been running slow. In the resource manager I noticed >

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
com>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Cc: Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory Since 57.0.2 installed itself on my (4 year old W7Professional) machine, Firefox has run *much* *slower*. Bah, humbug.

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread lrudolph
Since 57.0.2 installed itself on my (4 year old W7Professional) machine, Firefox has run *much* *slower*. Bah, humbug. > Did you get v57, Quantum? It should be much faster.. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:42 PM, Nick Thompson >

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Gillian Densmore
The short answer nick is all the browsers as well as Windows have a weird thing of just randomly eating all it can eat on your computer. Edge/Exploder Chrome, and FireFox are all frankly bad guests Just that some of them are politely bad guest, FireFox Classic tells epic sagas loudly, then

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Did you get v57, Quantum? It should be much faster.. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:42 PM, Nick Thompson > wrote: Hi, everybody, Recently Firefox updated itself and since that time my machine – an elderly W7 -- has been

[FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-07 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, everybody, Recently Firefox updated itself and since that time my machine - an elderly W7 -- has been running slow. In the resource manager I noticed that where it used to open one process, sometimes as large as half a gig, it now opens several processes, the total of which can easily