Hi,
Mihai Popescu wrote:
Go to Windows only then, it is a simple choice. You make me laugh: you
don't touch Chromium because it is from Google, but you are using
Gmail!
I don't like it but it has its uses. In this case I was using it to test
because it is a heavily interactive page and does not load ads that may
require flash.
Show me your study about browsers' stability and resources usage on
OSes, please. No, the fact that you are a heavy user doesn't count!
I gave a quick comparison about memory usage between Windows and
FreeBSD, that was an informal test but still a clue that it is not only
a limit problem, but also a resource usage problem
This is not an attack against your favourite OS and saying that in
certain scenarios an app on windows runs better is not an endorsement
for that operating system.
It only shows that there is space for improvement.
The fact that I am a heavy user is no kind of proof, it was just a mean
tosay that I am not an occasional browser user, but that I eran my daly
bread with stuff in a browser, so I have experience with the beast.
My suspect is that at least on all BSDs, Seamonkey (but surely other
browsers too) use more memory. If you add the stricter limits, it's easy.
I will perform a better comparison, including linux and write a blog
entry about it.
It could be a detendent library, it could be gtk, cairo... whatever.
A long time ago, on Linux I did run the same version of Mozilla (!) with
GTK and with win32 over wine. The latter was faster and used less resources.
Riccardo
