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 <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 November 2014 11:03, David Thornton <northdot9@gmail.com> 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.
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