They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
I use weather.gov instead for precisely this reason.
Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
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#22[edit: removing comment as people made it unreadable anyway.]
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#23They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
You can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast.
Or just go to http://wttr.in/
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#24Anyone have any perspective as to whether these gains will flow to Electron?
If they didn't, then that would mean development on Electron had stopped. Or that the Electron team needs to remove these features in their fork, and considering how much grief Electron's RAM usage gets, I don't see that happening.
The notes suggested a lot of the gains were targeting low memory environments so it wasn't immediately clear if it was a win in all dimensions.
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#25They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
I use weather.gov instead for precisely this reason.
It doesn't even have sunrise/sunset? Or am I just missing it? (I use Weather Underground.)
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#26They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
weather.com uses drupal7 + apache2 + ubuntu + angularjs, not sure why it is that slow, I use weather.com once a while just fine though.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#27They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
You can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast. Or just go to http://wttr.in/
tried that, how handy!
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#28They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
You can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast. Or just go to http://wttr.in/
I love this webservice. Nothing else to add, just my love.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#29awesome news then, chrome really needs to improve memory usage, especially when I have lots of tabs open.
under firefox I normally had 120 tabs open all the time, and it's fine. with chrome, I dare not to exceed 60 tabs. chrome triggers heavy swap all the time still, which renders the system very sluggish.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#30They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.
You can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast. Or just go to http://wttr.in/
Awesome! Kudos.
Now if they could sneak in an animated weather map...