[ale] more power

[Jim Kinney]

Support home-based nuclear power: Use Chrome on Vista! RAM used = power
consumed.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

> and so it starts, yet again..
>
> snydeq writes "Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 herald a new,
> resource-intensive era in Web browsing, one sure to shift our conception
> of acceptable minimum system requirements, InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy
> concludes in his head-to-head comparison of the recently announced
> multi-process, tabbed browsers. Whereas single-process browsers such as
> Firefox aim for lean, efficient browsing experiences, Chrome and IE 8
> are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple
> Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs. To do
> this, Chrome takes a 'purist' approach, launching multiple, discrete
> processes to isolate and protect each tab's contents. IE 8, on the other
> hand, goes hybrid, creating multiple instances of the iexplore.exe
> process without specifically assigning each tab to its own instance.
> 'Google's purist approach will ultimately prove more robust,' Kennedy
> argues, 'but at a cost in terms of resource consumption.' At what cost?
> Kennedy's comparison found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an
> average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE
> 8 itself consumes more resources than Vista, surely announce a new, very
> demanding era in Web-centric computing."
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2244226&from=rss
>
> I was going to try Chrome, maybe not...
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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