Phillip Jones wrote: > Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: >> On 11/27/2010 8:52 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: >>> Ant wrote: >>>> I just accidently pressed ctrl-T and got a tab in it. Am I the last >>>> user to know this? Did SM1 and Mozilla have this too? :( >>> >>> No SM couldn't thank goodness. >>> >>> I don't even use tabs in browser for SeaMonkey or in FF. The only >>> thing its good for is wasting memory as each tabbed item takes up >>> memory.
Tabs use less memory than new windows. >> MUCH Less memory than a new window though, fwiw. >> > But your only viewing each window one at a time. and it replaces in > memory the previous window's contents. <lol> You have a cite for that? I think you are wrong, and that each window uses its own separate memory that is not freed until the window is closed. > Its like a slide show. you completely replace the content in one > window with the content in another window. <chuckle!> If that were true, how come I can see the content in both windows at the same time, one beside the other? If one of the windows is playing a movie/video, how come the video continues to play when I have another open window beside it? > In tabs your saving the content as a separate instance. when you have > more than two tabs in memory that's a big drain on the RAM. Oh c'mon. I currently have one window with nine tabs open and there's nothing wrong with my RAM. > Then the hard drive comes into play and drags everything down waiting > for the swaps. (unless you have one of those solid state devices). > Even that drags the SSD down eventually causing its demise at shorter > interval. And these final sentences? You're making stuff up, Phillip. -- -bts -It's you're, not your _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
