On 2017-10-01 06:58 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> Resource usage in web browsers depend on a given web site. The greatest >> example is The Verge[0] a technology blog that requires 274 HTTP >> requests and 3.0 MB of data[1]. According to the Firefox extension Tab >> Data[2] on first load that take ~30MB of RAM and comes down to ~17MB >> after all the requests get processed. Interesting side note this >> article[3] can use anywhere from 40MB to 100MB of RAM. >> >> Browser developers build better optimized browsers while web developers >> make heavy web pages which use up all the resources (usually with ads). >> >> Extensions also take out a lot of memory as while, checkout about:memory. >> >> Though your question is warranted, it's not really appropriate as it >> will result a bunch of questions from the speaker (i.e. what web sites >> are you visiting, how many extensions are you using, what's your >> internet connection, etc). >> > > OK - - - -what you're saying is that 'its the customers fault'. That I'm > visiting > websites that just use too many resources. > > Except - - - I don't run flash (haven't for a number of years in fact) and > the > longevity of a browser is minimal. (Where I go is very much business > related > and my business stuff is mostly related to computer information relating to > my > business projects and business information - - often from governmental > agencies > and I don't think that they generally generate web pages like the one you > referred > to above.) By that I mean that after a few days the > best way to get through put out of the miserable POS is to kill it and then > restart. That process feels quite a bit like M$ where when the system gets > 'used' something hangs and the best solution is to reinstall. As a logic > system > that is, to put it quite bluntly, unacceptable.
Give Firefox 57 (beta or nightly builds)[1] a shot. I've been running nightly for a few months now with no issues. Just as stable as 52 and older releases, but exponentially faster. I'm not the only one who thinks so[2]. Cheers, Jamon [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/its-time-to-give-firefox-another-chance/ --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
