[FRIAM] firefox and memory

[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Russ.  Great to hear from you.  

RE salute,  more like every three hours.  But, truth be known, I am not a
great closer of windows, so maybe I should just do more of THAT.

We haven't heard a lot of from you, lately.  Any bursr do you  under your
saddle you'ld like to talk about?  

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 8:02 PM
To: Friam at redfish. com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

The problem is that these days, the browser tries to _be_ the operating
system. A bit like what people complained about emacs back in the day.

Not sure there's much to be done about it, other than grumpy old men rants.
If its really important to you, you'll need to buy yourself the same class
of machine developers use, ie minimum 16GB memory 3+GHz multicore processor.
Otherwise, you just have to kill off the browser every day or two (akin to
doing the 3 fingered solute on good ol' DOS) to release the execessive
amounts of memory.

Written on 7.5 yo Netbook with 1GB memory... :).


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