On: Ōryōki Web Browser

[overcast]

Sure RAM is meant to be used, but not when the browser just consumes it forever, until it begins grinding to a halt. What could a browser POSSIBLY be doing with 4-500MB of RAM PER TAB? It's a huge problem, and extensions like The Great Suspender should not have to even exist.

[Touche → overcast]

Each tab is a separate process. A separating operating system, you could say. Would you complain that your OS needs that much RAM? I wouldn't.

[overcast → Touche]

Except we're not running an entire operating system in each tab. Everything starts fine, and then quickly consumes memory. How about we just stay fine? I've got entire operating systems running with less resources in VirtualBox.

[groovy2shoes → Touche]

My operating system uses less than a quarter of the memory that a single tab in Chrome uses. And that's with X11 running. (OpenBSD 5.9, btw).

[Touche → groovy2shoes]

What's your point?

[groovy2shoes → Touche]

My point is that if you think of a browser as an operating system (which I don't), it still uses a ton of RAM, even in that context.

And, for the record, I would complain if my OS was a memory hog.

Now, get off my lawn!

/me shakes his cane at all the youngin's running around with their copious amounts of RAM

:)