otoh, Twitter.app on the Mac is awesome.
Agreed! I've been using a bunch. I wish you could view all twitter profile functions natively rather than the browser
New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison
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#42I can't help thinking that the tacked-on whine about this is why people want iPads and not PCs would make more sense if this post were not about a web-app that would probably slow down any tablet it was accessed on.
No, because the site wouldn't be able to consume cpu and memory in a background tab on the ipad.
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#43Earlier 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.
Really? I have to restart Firefox 3 much more often than I ever restarted Firefox 2. I routinely left Firefox 2 running for a month at a time with 100+ tabs spread across several open windows in different workspaces. Firefox 3 only lasts for about a week in a similar situation. Chrome uses more memory per tab, so 100+ tabs isn't feasible with it. (Maybe it is now, I haven't tried recently)
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#44I can't help thinking that the tacked-on whine about this is why people want iPads and not PCs would make more sense if this post were not about a web-app that would probably slow down any tablet it was accessed on.
No, because the site wouldn't be able to consume cpu and memory in a background tab on the ipad.
Or there is an actual Twitter app ...
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#45I noticed the same thing on my girlfriends CR-48, twitter wont scroll properly (studders) and everything else hangs a bit. She filed a bug report with google chrome os support, but I suspect twitter is doing a lot of heavy stuff in the background.
I've noticed it on my CR-48 and EEEpc 901.
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#46I can't help thinking that the tacked-on whine about this is why people want iPads and not PCs would make more sense if this post were not about a web-app that would probably slow down any tablet it was accessed on.
No, because the site wouldn't be able to consume cpu and memory in a background tab on the ipad.
In that case, wouldn't the "new twitter" view be utterly useless on the iPad, anyway? Couldn't you as easily go to it with a bookmark?
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#47Twitter takes 4 seconds to page up/down on my EeePC/Chrome/Ubuntu. Painful.
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#48Earlier 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.
Exactly. If these memory leaks were really there, why hasn't anyone gone through the code base and found them? From what I understand, the reason the amount of ram Firefox uses grows over time is because of caching, and if another program needs the ram, Firefox trims it's cache. What's the point of having 4 GBs of ram if you're only going to use 1.5?
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#49Agreed, 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.
> it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.
Depends on the MacBook; if the fans keep going on some of the lighter models you actually _can_ achieve liftoff with gratuitous flash.
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#50This is the least scientific analysis I think anyone could get away with. Why doesn't the author just profile the Twitter page to see how much time his CPU spends executing Javascript code and how much memory it consumes while running?