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I guess it's the pretty colors? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by renzev to c/memes

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[–] Demdaru 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Back then chrome was useful tho. Faster than any competition.

Now, while it's still fast, it's so. Fekkin. Hungry.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I want my browser to be hungry. I'd rather have it using the memory for sites than have the sites reload when I switch tabs. I want it to be fast on all things.

This is not exclusive to Chrome. No matter what I use, I want it to be running from RAM and not have to swap or reload anything. Even things on my phone. I absolutely hate when I'm in the middle of multitasking on my phone and I go back to some information and the app has been unloaded and needs to load from scratch again (sometimes requiring a login to view the information I had previously retrieved).

That being said, I load everything I own up with about as much RAM as I can, and I buy devices with more RAM than I think I'll need. Generally when considering an upgrade to my current cellphone, I'm looking at the RAM of the new phone and considering if the increased amount justifies the work and cost involved with changing phones (if there's an increase at all). Since RAM will be the most significant factor in whether or not something can keep up with me.

My main PC has 64G, my laptop has 32G, and I believe right now, my current phone has 8G. It may be time to upgrade my phone....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not 96gb or 128gb on your pc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've been thinking about upgrading. I have room to increase the memory on my main system, and my laptop. I can easily double both....

I believe my main system will support upwards of 1.5TB of RAM in specific configurations. I likely would not exceed 256GB. Beyond that and even the best CPUs for my system probably wouldn't be able to support enough processes to really take advantage of it. Even now I'm more concerned about CPU speed in my main rig than I am about RAM. I'll probably pick up something with faster cores soon.

[–] Demdaru 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I...wow...whew...my PC has 12gb...you're scary my man...

A-anyway, I believe browsers shouldn't be that hungry...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't be scared. I'm rarely over 32GB of use. I mainly have it for when I need to do some virtualization/lab work.

Even when I do labs though, I usually debate whether to run them local or put them on my home server with 256GB of RAM.

Edit to add: since I have the memory, I'd rather that chrome uses it for useful stuff. No point in having the memory if it's just going to sit vacant most of the time. I already bought the RAM, so I might as well use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It wasn’t, people were using out dated explorer versions and up to date Chrome was faster

Luckily Microsoft learned from Google that you can’t leave updates up to the user