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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by blakeyrat on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:08PM (#12437981)
I'm not a Firefox user, but considering that 95% of the time about half my RAM is going unused (well, Windows uses it for pre-caching random stuff it thinks I might need), I don't mind high memory usage as long as I get a benefit for it.

If it's just inefficient, that's a different story.

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by xorblurb on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:40PM (#12438718)
The thing is HD caching is extremely elastic. Memory consumption by a browser, less so (maybe even nearly not at all elastic).

So what you might think of a benefit one day might be a drawback the next if you want to open twice the same amount of tabs, or run a big build in the background.

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