Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54 • Hacker News Board

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by kevindong » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:04 AM UTC

barnacs wrote: post #110

Great news! A simple weather website, with about 1 MB worth of actual content (text, markup, images, layout) now only uses 250 MB of memory. And it only takes a few seconds to load on a 100Mbps+ connection whenever I click a menu item (that's with all ads and tracking blocked and most of the stuff already cached). I'm sorry, I just don't see any reason to celebrate.

I personally just do a Google search for 'weather' if I want local weather. Otherwise, 'weather '. Very fast and lightweight.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by truth_sentinell » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:07 AM UTC

sker wrote: post #56

wiredfool wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tabs are the new bookmarks.

They're better. If I bookmark something with any service, chances of me ever checking that out again drop to nearly zero. Tabs, by virtue of being there bugging you, are bookmarks, to-do lists, and task reminders all in one.

No, they aren't. I don't know about you, but I can't have more than 20 tabs open and consciously be aware of the content. I can't think of people like above, having 120 tabs. It's probably a waste of time and resources. First because you can't possibly hold in your memory 120 tabs, thus you'll have to visit them or read the title to remind you why is it there on the first place. With bookmarks at least you can use the search bar...

So it ends up being counterproductive.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by dexwiz » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:09 AM UTC

olegkikin wrote: post #98

It also looks like the UI shrunk 30%, and there's no way to change it, except by changing the DPI of the whole OS.

Previously Chrome did not take computer DPI settings into account. Now it scales the UI with DPI settings. I found my laptop was at 125% scaling without me knowing.

http://techdows.com/2016/10/fix-chrome-54-looks-zoomed-in.ht...

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by dexwiz » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:17 AM UTC

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.

Are you using Classic Gmail or Google Inbox?

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by robertcorey » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:19 AM UTC

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/

neat, thanks for the tip.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by ikeboy » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:20 AM UTC

dexwiz wrote: post #114

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.

Are you using Classic Gmail or Google Inbox?

Classic. Can't handle inbox on a computer, only in the app.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by Waterluvian » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:21 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #57

This sounds too good to be true. Are there any downsides to this improvement?

A random 30% of the document and scripts don't load. ;)

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by QUFB » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:28 AM UTC

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.

I'm definitely not in Santa Clara, Cuba...

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by isuraed » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:28 AM UTC

Tempest1981 wrote: post #92

Any way to set the minimum tab width yet? Once I get 7+ tabs in a window, they're truncated to a useless width.

Firefox does this.

Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54

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Post by nkkollaw » Sun, Dec 04, 2016, 12:31 AM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #107

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a workaround, you can use your zip code instead. E.g. http://wttr.in/90401

Doesn’t work with German ZIP codes: http://wttr.in/24107 or ISO ZIP codes: http://wttr.in/D-24107

Why would it work with German zip codes? Zip codes are not universal...