Post by prodigit on Apr 15, 2013 8:40:37 GMT -5
What I dislike about most modern browsers, is the huge amount of memory they consume.
Browsers of the past, used to take up 65Mb, or upto 128Mb in Windows XP.
Now a browser and windows together uses up 1,5GB of memory (where before I could run perfectly fine with 300MB).
That's all fine and stuff, except for my netbook, which only has 2GB of RAM (originally came with only 1). That, and, part of the 2GB already goes to the video memory (between 32MB and 256MB; that's upto 10% of mem!)
Even 2GB is sometimes not enough.
Open a browser with a few tabs, Ms Word, and some background programs, and it easily tops 2GB of used memory.
If you don't want your computer to be working at snail's pace, you disable the swap file, but then your computer is limited to the RAM memory in the system. Go even 1 byte over the available memory, and you end up with a system crash!
Don't like it!
Windows 8 is heading in a good direction, memory wise, but the user interface sucks! At least, the tablet layout sucks!
Browsers of the past, used to take up 65Mb, or upto 128Mb in Windows XP.
Now a browser and windows together uses up 1,5GB of memory (where before I could run perfectly fine with 300MB).
That's all fine and stuff, except for my netbook, which only has 2GB of RAM (originally came with only 1). That, and, part of the 2GB already goes to the video memory (between 32MB and 256MB; that's upto 10% of mem!)
Even 2GB is sometimes not enough.
Open a browser with a few tabs, Ms Word, and some background programs, and it easily tops 2GB of used memory.
If you don't want your computer to be working at snail's pace, you disable the swap file, but then your computer is limited to the RAM memory in the system. Go even 1 byte over the available memory, and you end up with a system crash!
Don't like it!
Windows 8 is heading in a good direction, memory wise, but the user interface sucks! At least, the tablet layout sucks!
