On Thu 22 Mar 2007 10:15:20a, DrLith wrote:
> My other big gripe about Firefox is that it is a memory pig to beat all
> memory pigs. Ok, so I often work with a lot of tabs open. People who
> think they browse with a lot of tabs open will look at my screen and
> say, wow, you've got a lot of tabs open. "You are about to close 32
> tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?" is just another day at the
> office for me. That under these conditions Firefox balloons to eating up
> 200K of memory is not so much of a problem if you've got a GB of ram. If
> you have, as my laptop until recently did, only 256K, it is crippling!
I wouldn't know as I haven't used IE in years, other than the odd page here
or there.. but how much memory would be needed to have that many pages open
in IE? I mean... is this an issue for FF or for the fact that you
routinely open 32 different pages? Just curious.