Desiree wrote:
I don't have Flash installed on Fx or SeaMonkey because I hate the 2 Flash plugins that will not shut off in Task Manager once I am finished with a Flash page. Those plugins eat a lot of RAM even when Flash is not being used.
Just out of curiosity, how much is "a lot of RAM"? And what are the processes called? I don't see your point.
As an experiment, I closed SM and relaunched it (I have it set to start with the mail window only). The SM process started at 174 MB, and rose quickly to 205 MB. I launched a 4-minute YouTube video, which spawned a plugin container that started at 54 MB and plateaued at 59. When I closed the browser window, the plugin container shrank to 10 MB, and the SM process was at 207 MB. I repeated the cycle: launched a browser window, played a video, terminated it. As before, the plugin container peaked at just under 60 MB, and the SM process grew to 213 MB, but they fell back to 204 and 10 when I terminated the browser window.
I've seen the SM process as high as 400 MB, but it drops right back if I clear the cache.
If I want to, I can force-close the plugin container in Task Manager, but why bother? On a machine with 8 GB of RAM, 10 MB more or less is chicken feed. It would cost me more in labor to terminate the process than I would gain in improved performance.
I suppose it's inelegant that the plugin container doesn't quite close. But perhaps it relaunches more quickly like the old-style TSRs than if it closed completely. I don't know, I can't tell the difference.
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