Bill,
In that case, I stand corrected. 44 tabs open ? Guess I'm really coming up insignificant with just 8 or so. (Many of those could have considerable flash etc. content, because it's often hard to avoid these days.)
Evidently, FF has not yet adopted the model you spoke of, as I have seen one tab encounter a problem that crashed the whole browser. Then, when invoked again, it might come up with that error message about possibly not being able to restore all tabs, leaving me to pick and choose which ones' sessions to try to salvage. Fortunately, this has been an infrequent occurrence, one I haven't seen for awhile.
I mainly use Chrome as a backup for certain situations. Sometimes it might display a page better than FF does. There are some pages crafted
with MS composition tools that only look the way that they are supposed to in IE. (FF does have the IE-Tab extension for that, which works more often than not, so that I don't have to put up with using that sorry product.) When a problem is noted with a certain page, Chrome provides a good second opinion. And it has some printing and other features I don't find in FireFox. One browser is really not enough.
Jordan
From: Bill Troop
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: In praise of 64-bit systems WAS Re: Do we actually need XP support?
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?