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/