[dba-Tech] Edge

[Rocky Smolin]

do you use it?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:01 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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