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Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by wtallis »

moreira wrote: post #46
wyclif wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious why this is the case. You'd think if Google wanted 64 bit Chrome to be the default, they'd do it on both platforms even if only for consistency's sake.

It might just be because of the difference in platforms. 32-bit Mac has been gone for half a decade, whereas 32-bit Windows is still out there (32-bit Windows 10 exists), and those wouldn't be able to run 64-bit Chrome, so they may be using 32-bit as the default in order to avoid user confusion.

More specifically about OS X: support for 32-bit hardware was dropped in 2011, but support for 64-bit applications has been available on all 64-bit hardware since 2007, even if you were running the 32-bit OS kernel. Apple handled that transition way better than Microsoft.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by MrQuincle »

Exuma wrote: post #11
wfunction wrote: post #6

[edit: removing comment as people made it unreadable anyway.]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/back-to-backspace/...

It's not so relevant to the conversation about memory, but is indeed a feature that has been removed.

If you want to have a single key on Linux representing going back again, I would recommend not to overload the backspace, but pick a key you don't need.

On my system F7 I never use, so it's perfect for this purpose.

$> xmodmap -e 'keycode 73 = XF86Back F7 F7 F7'

Or persistent:

$> keycode 73 = XF86Back F7 F7 F7 >> ~/.xmodmap

I hope I save you all a lot of keystrokes in the future!

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by niij »

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/

Thanks for the helpful link!

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by bogomipz »

ikeboy wrote: post #42

Wow. My normal session now leaves me with around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. Gmail is using less than 1GB again. I might even disable The Great Suspender, and stop killing tabs that use up lots of memory. Whoever worked on this, you deserve a raise. QOL improvements for so many people.

What is The Great Suspender?

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by [deleted] »

kbenson wrote: post #59
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hmm. "Weather for City: Santa Rosa, Philippines" That's the wrong Santa Rosa, in the wrong country. There's an interesting bug in there somewhere.

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Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by MetaMonk »

bogomipz wrote: post #65
ikeboy wrote: post #42

Wow. My normal session now leaves me with around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. Gmail is using less than 1GB again. I might even disable The Great Suspender, and stop killing tabs that use up lots of memory. Whoever worked on this, you deserve a raise. QOL improvements for so many people.

What is The Great Suspender?

Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by minot »

MetaMonk wrote: post #67
bogomipz wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is The Great Suspender?

Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.

(To add to the description, from their github readme)

> "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by bogomipz »

MetaMonk wrote: post #67
bogomipz wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is The Great Suspender?

Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.

Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

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