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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

#91
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.

Also, there is https://weather.gov

Even better, weather.gov/ZIP e.g. http://weather.gov/55455

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

#93

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Try Weather Underground: Their graph is the most impressive, useful visualization of weather data around, IME. For example: https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast... Note you can click the controls at the top right of the graph and add/remove elements. The graph is a bit heavy, but that may be necessary to generate the visualization.

What I didn't realize was that weather underground is now owned by the weather channel :(

Technically it's owned by The Weather Company which in turn is owned by IBM. The TV channel is now a separate entity. I still find their forecasts to be more reliable and the user weather station data is great

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

#94
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.

A goddamned BROWSER takes 8 GB of memory?

That is a DISGRACE.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

#96
post #9

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It's the default on Mac, not sure on windows.

I think their installer detects what Windows you are on and installs that, now; but I could be wrong.

Yes I have installed Chrome on W10 on few machines and always got the 64-bit version automatically.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

#97
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/

This is great. Hope the dev fixes location detection! Weather from the terminal, woot

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

#100
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 can't recommend this extension enough, The Great Suspender: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... It freezes your tab after a set amount of time, freeing up the memory for each tab.

And it's also a huge battery saver.
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