On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:10:45 -0500
> > I have 512 MB there. My computer has 1024MB Ram. For what does > > firefox need so much memory?! I think that puzzles everyone. Browsers are often full of memory leaks too. I haven't had any crashes on 57 or 58 btw. I haven't checked quantum but priorly it used ~300 Megabytes before opening a web page. Chromium was similar but in many processes. Edge used far less but I guess it goes up with every additional feature they add like drawing over web pages, extensions etc.. Over a decade ago, firebird used to use ~30 megabytes if I remember correctly. Windows is terrible with hdd and ram usage, about a decade ago people started marketing huge ram computers as it was apparent that it would avoid Windows paging and thrashing so much. It's gone crazy since I guess, though Windows update and installers are still terrible disk users. Probably largely what has driven the SSD market too despite it's downsides like capacity and cost (every time you boot or connect the internet especially after being disconnected or off for a week, Windows is crazy slow due to HDD contention).
