[dba-Tech] Edge

[Peter Brawley]

On 11/24/2020 14:00, Arthur Fuller wrote:

I'd like to keep the convenience of google sync'ing urls & bookmarks 
across eight or so devices.

PB

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> 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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