junk2drive
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Joined: 6/27/2002 From: Arizona West Coast Status: offline
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On the subject of browsers. I have had a heck of a time with browsers bloating their memory usage as shown in task manager. I surf a lot of sites looking for new posts or news. After having Firefox open all day it would get to 350-380,000 k. I have it set to clear history every time it closes. IE8 was getting to 150-200,000 k when I tried FF to see if it was any better. Back then, 3.2 or so, it was better. It could be ad blocker or some other extension that I have running. Anyway I tried google Chrome, it was worse with several entries in task manager after opening tabs that didn't go away after closing the tab. I tried Firefox 4.0 beta, no better. I am on XP so no IE9. I was at my daughter's for Thanksgiving and they have a Mac. After using Safari there I tried it here. So far I'm pleased. Not only has it not gone over 125,000k, if I minimise it, it goes down below 10,000 k. I've slowed down a few games by having browsers open while playing. It has just as many features as the others and a few I've never thought about. I'll let you know if it disappoints me.
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