I dunno, I am not too quick to jump on blaming the browser as "memory leaky". I am willing to bet some sites are not built with your memory in mind. Consider sites that just load and load javascript objects ad nauseum. Should the browser say : "ok that's enough web site, no more java script objects for you" ? and if it's a reasonable X for a single site ... and you have 300 sites open .. is 300X ok for your computer?
This is not a simple problem, so I think it's ok to ask a user to "be considerate" of their own memory/ system resources (heaven forbid the user knowa a smidge about how her/his computer works ) David On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 November 2014 11:03, David Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Browser != OS. >> >> _even_ Chrome gets confused from time to time. >> >> I don't think it's too much to ask to just "reboot" your browser. >> > > But it's also not too much to ask to hope for the browser to not be > *too* dramatically memory leaky. > > And It sure seems like the browsers have gotten memory leaky, even > without resorting to Flash and Java. It looks to me like Javascript, which > is pretty well mandatory these days what with all the "web applications" > using AJAX and such, can chew great gobs of memory without hardly > trying. > -- > When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the > question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" > > > > --- > GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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