Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by fnj on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:06PM (#12437972)

Forgive me; your statement does not make sense. First you're implying that all you have to do is get more RAM; then you're admitting that you only have a certain amount, so you should stop using so much.

In actuality, very few non-server PCs can be populated with any more than 16-32 GB. It's not a matter of bother or expense at all. It's a design limit.

Every single time I've driven a non-server PC into hopeless swap thrashing, it's been the damn browser that was the culprit. Don't bother trying to advise me to bookmark 100 open tabs in 10 windows to save space. That is (forgive me) an insult to one's intelligence.

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by xorblurb on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:49PM (#12438781)

Even more of a problem on laptops since the market has overwhelmingly moved from a technical capabilities standpoint to a race to less weight and more autonomy. Has a result, max memory on high end or configurable models has at best stagnated for a few years. I've a 4 years old laptop with 16GB. It's not yet possible to get that on all flagships laptops today (even though 16GB SODimm is not even expensive anymore).

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by yuhong on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:13AM (#12441406)

To be more technically precise, the limit comes from UDIMMs based on 4Gbit DDR3. DDR4 does have 8Gbit chips, but...

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