kellys_eye
- Jun 25, 2010
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I'm running WIndows 7 on an old Dell laptop (Inspiron 1525) and it generally runs well enough but...
...looking at the system resources in Task Manager I see Firefox is running two instances (even with just one page open), one instance using some 400Mb or resource and the other using some 150Mb.
First, why two instances of Firefox?
Secondly, 550Mb to run a browser???? FFS, what heck happened to efficient programming?
I haven't looked into this before but what other browsers are there that run more efficiently?
I've had a 'beef' about slackware programmers who rely on ever-increasing processor power to disguise their pathetic efforts at proper programming - by that I mean programming efficiently and with consideration for compact software. I seem to recall, back in the old DOS days (yes, I'm that old!) I could run a simple 3D graphics design package in under 1Mb and Word Processing was done with a package that came on a single floppy disk.......
Yeah, I'm a grumpy old f@rt..... but what can you do?????
...looking at the system resources in Task Manager I see Firefox is running two instances (even with just one page open), one instance using some 400Mb or resource and the other using some 150Mb.
First, why two instances of Firefox?
Secondly, 550Mb to run a browser???? FFS, what heck happened to efficient programming?
I haven't looked into this before but what other browsers are there that run more efficiently?
I've had a 'beef' about slackware programmers who rely on ever-increasing processor power to disguise their pathetic efforts at proper programming - by that I mean programming efficiently and with consideration for compact software. I seem to recall, back in the old DOS days (yes, I'm that old!) I could run a simple 3D graphics design package in under 1Mb and Word Processing was done with a package that came on a single floppy disk.......
Yeah, I'm a grumpy old f@rt..... but what can you do?????