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New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by redthrowaway »

naner wrote: post #30
ComputerGuru wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has crazy memory leaks. Don't blame it on twitter, regardless how bad their code may be. A tab should be completely and utterly destroyed when refreshed. It doesn't matter how much memory it used, refreshing it or navigating away from that page should (ignoring optimizations, caching, etc. etc. etc.) be like you were never there. Just look at the hundreds of complaints here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/fire…

Firefox has crazy memory leaks. Proof? This was the case with Firefox 2 but now it just seems like this is part of their reputation and is not necessarily grounded in fact.

I routinely leave my browser open for days on end and simply cycle through tabs, closing and opening new ones as needed, with usually ~10 open at a given time. I, too, noticed that firefox was eating up about half a gig of ram even when it wasn't doing anything, didn't have any youtube tabs open, etc. It got to the point where I would have to close firefox and restart after a day or two. Chrome fixed that. Now, I just use firefox with the modify headers extension to watch domain-specific video, and have no plans to go back.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#33

Post by riobard »

redthrowaway wrote: post #31
naner wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has crazy memory leaks. Proof? This was the case with Firefox 2 but now it just seems like this is part of their reputation and is not necessarily grounded in fact.

I routinely leave my browser open for days on end and simply cycle through tabs, closing and opening new ones as needed, with usually ~10 open at a given time. I, too, noticed that firefox was eating up about half a gig of ram even when it wasn't doing anything, didn't have any youtube tabs open, etc. It got to the point where I would have to close firefox and restart after a day or two. Chrome fixed that. Now, I jus…

Same problem here with Safari.

I'll vote for process-per-tab as the single best feature of Chrome.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#35

Post by Semiapies »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #32

Am I the only person who doesn't keep twitter open constantly?

No. I only check it once or twice a workday.

However, this is because I use Google Reader to follow feeds and only use Twitter to keep up to date with friends and acquaintances. That's not the typical use-case.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#36

Post by rdl »

kylec wrote: post #5
watmough wrote: post #3

Agreed, the new twitter is way demanding compared to the older version. Once they stop allowing the old version, I'll probably have twitter loaded much less. On a core 2 duo, even scrolling in new twitter is way below par. Is there a low cpu-usage client? I tried one of the flash based ones, but it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.

I'm using the new Twitter client from the Mac App Store - it's quite good: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12

While it's better than the web UI, it suffers from the "mp3 player" problem of trying to make up its own widget library and UI style, and actually is kind of lame in a lot of ways (there is no top-level "new tweet" button, which is kind of a feature of all the mobile clients, and it's definitely a pain to use for DM conversations. It pops up weird non-standard shaped windows all over. I'd consider it a respectable indy effort, but pretty disappointing for Twitter, Inc.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#38

Post by [deleted] »

seldo wrote: post #23
ComputerGuru wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox has crazy memory leaks. Don't blame it on twitter, regardless how bad their code may be. A tab should be completely and utterly destroyed when refreshed. It doesn't matter how much memory it used, refreshing it or navigating away from that page should (ignoring optimizations, caching, etc. etc. etc.) be like you were never there. Just look at the hundreds of complaints here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/fire…

I have been using it in Chrome and new Twitter has been unreasonably slow. A friend who works at Twitter has acknowledged that they know about the issue and are working on it.

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Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#39

Post by TheAmazingIdiot »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #32

Am I the only person who doesn't keep twitter open constantly?

No, you arent the only one.

I'm still looking for a reason to even use twitter. I understand _what_ it is, just not any useful purposes for me.

I did think of it as a way to send broadcast "secret" messages, or something along those lines, or when you are posting mundane stuff (went 2 bathroom had shit). Possibly it could be used as a form of a system downtime monitor, similar to what status.4chan.org is.

But use it for me? That's what emails, txts, and phone calls are for.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#40

Post by redthrowaway »

riobard wrote: post #33
redthrowaway wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I routinely leave my browser open for days on end and simply cycle through tabs, closing and opening new ones as needed, with usually ~10 open at a given time. I, too, noticed that firefox was eating up about half a gig of ram even when it wasn't doing anything, didn't have any youtube tabs open, etc. It got to the point where I would have to close firefox and restart after a day or two. Chrome fixed that. Now, I jus…

Same problem here with Safari. I'll vote for process-per-tab as the single best feature of Chrome.

Me too. The overhead is slightly higher, but having crashes and memory leaks confined to a single tab is awesome.
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