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Archive for October, 2006
A Whole New Worldview!
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Firefox 2.0 Tabs Waste Space
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC3 this morning to see if it would keep GMail from being so totally wasteful with RAM (see: RAM Hogs). Not sure on that. What I did notice was that they’d implemented the “X”-on-each-tab feature (from Opera and Safari), but did it in a pretty wasteful way in terms of vertical space. As more people move to laptops, even with bigger monitors, we’ve slowed down on the advancement to bigger screens. My silly iBook, for one, can only drive 1024×768, so I really care about screen real estate.
Examples:
- Opera
- Safari
- Firefox 2.0
RAM Hogs
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006I’m getting pretty annoyed by the performance of my year-old iBook these days, mostly due to my DSL not working properly and running out of RAM (neither of which is really the fault of the hardware persay). After noticing that I was has 870MB of RAM “Used” (of 1GB total) according to my iStat Nano widget (basically a wrapper to top or Activity Monitor), I started trying to quit stuff to get that back down. With everything closed, I was using 697MB.. Blech.
I shutdown, restarted. Here’s my startup log:
| Action | Used (MB) | Difference (MB) |
|---|---|---|
| Startup | 224 | n/a |
| Thunderbird | 267 | 43 |
| Firefox (google.com) | 314 | 47 |
| FF to gmail.com | 324 | 10 |
| Adium | 341 | 17 |
| Finder (new window, browsing) | 351 | 10 |
| Terminal | 365 | 14 |
| Teminal–3 new windows | 378 | 13 |
| Firefox–two new tabs, sites | 378 | 8 |
| Azureus | 446 | 68 (!!) |
Blah, I thought life should at least be decent with 1GB RAM?!
Update: This document from Apple helps explain why only some of the columns in Activity Monitor are interesting.