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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by fsasieta »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #23
niij wrote: post #10

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.

You can run `curl wttr.in` to get your local weather and 3-day forecast. Or just go to http://wttr.in/

you have changed my life

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by curiousgal »

ausjke wrote: post #29

awesome 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.

120 tabs?! What for?!

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by setq »

curiousgal wrote: post #33
ausjke wrote: post #29

awesome 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.

120 tabs?! What for?!

I do this. It's a curse. I don't know why.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by Bud »

stemcc wrote: post #17
gf263 wrote: post #7

does this help the battery life in any way?

RAM is one of your least power hungry components compared to other parts of your computer, such as what generates heat (CPU/GPU) or produces physical motion (fans or spinning drives).

This makes no sense. RAM generates heat just as CPU does, and RAM also actually does consume a substantial percentage of laptop power. However, said usage isn't related to how much RAM is being used, really; it's a constant usage rate to keep the current RAM state alive.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by wiredfool »

curiousgal wrote: post #33
ausjke wrote: post #29

awesome 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.

120 tabs?! What for?!

Tabs are the new bookmarks.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by spacehacker »

curiousgal wrote: post #33
ausjke wrote: post #29

awesome 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.

120 tabs?! What for?!

I personally use tabs like a desktop with all kinds of papers, documents and books flying around. Sort of like this:

https://s15.postimg.org/dpq7mpmaz/messydesk.jpg

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by radicalbyte »

niij wrote: post #10

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.

1. Install uMatrix. 2. Allow *.mapbox.com on weather.com 3. Enjoy a fast and useful site.

Same trick works for many sites, particularly old media (TV, newspapers, content spam etc).

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by thejay »

ausjke wrote: post #29

awesome 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.

I too keep a lot of tabs open. I use OneTab and The Great Suspender chrome extensions to also keep memory usage under control. They've been indispensable tools for the tab hoarders like me.
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