[dba-Tech] Edge

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 20:13:57 CST 2020


U am not suffering this problem on any of my systems. All are running
Chrome. Onr is Linux, one is Windows 10, and the third is a Google
Chromebook. Maybe it is not the browser that is the problem..

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:47 PM Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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
>
> -----
>
> > 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


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