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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by colanderman on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:28PM (#6606979)
Regular users don't know or care about memory management, they don't even close old windows or tabs, its about convenience.

Why should they? If a tab's "dormant", the browser can just quiesce JS timeouts and let the tab's memory get swapped out. Not a problem anymore.

That most (all?) web browsers don't do this currently isn't the user's fault.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by Touche on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:44PM (#6607088)
That's not interesting idea, but I'm not sure any browser is designed to be able to fully restore the state of a tab that it's swapped out.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by csense on Thursday October 24, 2013 @03:45PM (#6607447)
Do you even know what swapping is? The whole idea of swapping is that the OS pages out memory without the application being aware of what's happening!
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