ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I'm still a little curious of Opera.  If you have a number of flash applications open, which use a fair amount of RAM, there's no way Opera can still consume that little RAM.  The only way would be if Opera cached the inactive tabs to the harddrive.  Uses less memory, but it's slower to switch between tabs.  There may also be some concurrency problems...

@bstronga: how can you stand such small tabs?

yup that's probably how opera's memory management works. well at least that's what i think the memory cache setting is for... ;o
which means, yes you can get it even smaller.

uhm you mean how orientation works in this mess?
well there is a system to this mess, notice the locked tabs on the left and favicons are a great help too ;p

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ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Uses less memory, but it's slower to switch between tabs.

no.

(This post was last modified: 12/04/2008 07:26 AM by bstronga.)

bstronga Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I'm still a little curious of Opera.  If you have a number of flash applications open, which use a fair amount of RAM, there's no way Opera can still consume that little RAM.  The only way would be if Opera cached the inactive tabs to the harddrive.  Uses less memory, but it's slower to switch between tabs.  There may also be some concurrency problems...

@bstronga: how can you stand such small tabs?

yup that's probably how opera's memory management works. well at least that's what i think the memory cache setting is for... ;o
which means, yes you can get it even smaller.

uhm you mean how orientation works in this mess?
well there is a system to this mess, notice the locked tabs on the left and favicons are a great help too ;p

I guess you get used to the icons :P

bstronga Wrote:edit:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Uses less memory, but it's slower to switch between tabs.

no.

Loading from HDD will always be slower than from memory.  You may not notice it, but that's what's happening. (if you really want to try, run two HDD intensive tasks at the same time as switching tabs)

I beileve Firefox has a setting to cache some stuff to HDD.  Probably buried inside about:config somewhere.

But yeah, Firefox still eats up too much RAM.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

bstronga Wrote:edit:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Uses less memory, but it's slower to switch between tabs.

no.

Loading from HDD will always be slower than from memory.  You may not notice it, but that's what's happening. (if you really want to try, run two HDD intensive tasks at the same time as switching tabs)

I beileve Firefox has a setting to cache some stuff to HDD.  Probably buried inside about:config somewhere.

But yeah, Firefox still eats up too much RAM.

Zinga i know that...
i was just saying that its unnoticeable.

i yet have to try firefox 3 which hopefully has fixed those issues, 'cause the only reason why I'm on opera is simply because of its superior memory management.

bstronga Wrote:Zinga i know that...
i was just saying that its unnoticeable.

i yet have to try firefox 3 which hopefully has fixed those issues, 'cause the only reason why I'm on opera is simply because of its superior memory management.

Oh okay, gotcha!

I'd use Opera if it had more plugins, was a little more logical, and had a better Javascript handling.