[dba-Tech] Edge

[Arthur Fuller]

Perhaps give the Brave browser a try.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:23 PM Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> On 11/24/2020 9:49, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> > Dear List:
> >
> > I'm switching over to Microsoft Edge because Firefox always seems to have
> > multiple instances of itself open as seen in the Task Manager.  Even when
> > there's only one tab open there are multiple instances.  With several
> tabs,
> > the memory required often exceeds a GB.
> >
> > The same thing I see now in Edge. I have one tab open - GMail - and there
> > is an (11) after Microsoft Edge in the task manager.  And it's taking >
> > 600MB of memory.
> >
> > Additionally, the RAM usage seems to grow and not shrink as more tabs are
> > opened and closed.  Why the bloat? Bad garbage collection?
> >
> > I'm curious to know what those multiple instances of Edge and Firefox are
> > doing, but more interested in if there is a way to reduce the resource
> > usage on either of those browsers.
>
> Chrome does the same thing ... is there a modern full-featured that
> doesn't? I bit the bullet, concluded no laptop with <16GB RAM  is adequate.
>
> PB
>
>
> >
> > MMTIA
> >
> > Rocky
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Arthur