Comment by zoeysmithe
Comment by zoeysmithe 13 hours ago
Even the mythical "average user" uses tons of processing. Just "a few tabs" is like having several large applications open.
Comment by zoeysmithe 13 hours ago
Even the mythical "average user" uses tons of processing. Just "a few tabs" is like having several large applications open.
This could finally force the developers of cross-platform GUI and webview libraries, drunk on Moore’s Law, to sober up.
decent chunk of RAM maybe but my parents are happily browsing away on decade+ old chrome books. Ordinary web browsing you can do on a potato machine from 2008.
Even if you're a gamer performance on the desktop has eclipsed demand so much that you can play anything on a few years old machine. It used to be way worse in the "olden" days when only 10% of people had a system that was able to play Crysis.
Hasn't been true for about a decade. Modern browsers suspend most processor activity of background tabs, so it's mostly just memory pressure.