Re: In praise of 64-bit systems WAS Re: Do we actually need XP support?

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Heavy usage would entail many open tabs (let's say at least 15) and lots
of video and music streaming and other Flash content. Chrome (and Opera,
now based on Chrome) and Internet Explorer use the most memory because
under their new 'crash proof' architecture each tab is as separate an
application as it can be, so that if one tab crashes, the rest of the
browser system should remain solid.


For example, right now I have 44 tabs open in Chrome now (which doesn't
feel like a lot), and this consumes 3GB each of RAM and virtual
RAM. Most tabs are only using around 20MB of memory but two are using
close to 200 MB, probably because of bad coding in the originating
websites.


Firefox by contrast would only use a fraction of that amount of memory.





At 26/03/2014 23:24, you wrote:


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:30 PM,
Bill Troop
mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx
wrote:



Your usage is probably quite light.



On Wednesday, 26 March 2014, Harry Binswanger
mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx wrote:



I'm running Chrome (latest version) on 32 bit Win 7 with no
problems.





but many of us prefer 64-bit systems









I'm using Firefox (latest version) on 32 bit XP with no problems. Of
course, I'm not streaming movies or playing games on it. Does that
qualify as light usage?