Why so irrational and emotional? If it's really a problem then all you have to do is provide your configuration and steps to reproduce the problem. Should be easy.
Here you go:
1) Open 2 or 3 instances of FF, then open 4 to 5 tabs in each instance. For example, a few email providers, a few forums, some news sites, etc.
2) Sit back and watch as the memory climbs and climbs. Using the actual instances and tabs is optional. It may take a day, but it will climb steadily.
3) If you don't personally see it occur, state that it must not really be a problem because it's not happening to you.
It's just too fucking expensive. Yes, it's a cool phone, but fuck all if I'm going to pay $700 or more for one of them.
There are LOADS of perfectly acceptable feature-loaded phones you can buy for $200 to $300. No one has managed to explain why this phone is a good deal for $700.
Please, present some evidence to that effect. You'll be pleasantly surprised by what you learn in your search.
I've no need to do your homework for you, I experience the FF memory leaks on a daily basis. Right now with 5 tabs open for 24 hours it's gone from ~750Kb of memory to ~2.35Gb...in a little while it'll start to drop images, show me black/blank screens, slow way down, and finally either become totally unresponsive or just suddenly crash.
FFS, I've been seeing this kind of behavior (or similar) for the last 25 versions. But IE didn't do that, and Opera doesn't do that, and Pale Moon doesn't do that.
Oh, but I forgot- if you're not experiencing it personally, then it's all just fluff and anecdotal evidence and must not really be happening.
Considering there are tens of thousands of people making shitloads of money every day coding some serious, useful applications in in Python, I'd say you're mistaken.
Trump voters are the losers....Doubly so. They were losers who were sold a bill of goods by a con man and are going to lose more because of it
Bingo. The problem is that they're too stupid to see or understand it, even when it happens to them.
When they lose their jobs and medical coverage and are paying $10 for a gallon of gas, they'll find a way to blame Hillary or Obama or George Soros. They'll blame anyone but Little Donnie Two Scoops.
I apologize for the fact that almost no one recognized the sarcasm in your post.
Yeah, we'll get those coal miners their jobs back just as soon as we revitalize the mustache wax industry and provide lifetime subsidies to buggy whip manufacturers.
Not everyone is sitting home playing Tux Racer and writing GCC code.
You're right- where I work we use Linux on AWS to process tens of millions of medical transactions on a daily basis. Tux Racer sounds fun, but we have work to do and Microsoft is too slow, bloated, insecure, and expensive for us to bother with.
For example, AWS just added MS SQL to their BAA catalog, and we couldn't be less interested if we tried. DynamoDB and Redshift work better, faster, and at a much lower cost than trying to spin up a bunch of clumsy Windows instances that stumble even under a moderate load.
Also, AWS now bills Linux instances by the second- if you run for 5 minutes, that's what you're billed for: 5 minutes of run time.
But Windows is billed by the hour and so of course it costs a shitload more than doing the heavy lifting with Linux instances. If you run for 5 minutes, you're billed for an hour. That sucks.
Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible....all that stuff is waaaaaaay better on Linux.
If you want the non MS kernel you can still use it by not using Microsoft's cloud platform in the first place
Exactly. And frankly, as someone who's worked with both platforms, Amazon's Web Services is a far better platform and has much better infrastructure than Azure.
I've worked with both of them (currently working in an AWS shop) and although Azure has some great features, AWS is definitely better overall.
For years I've joked about Microsoft coming out with their own version of Linux... and now it has come to pass. Make no mistake- this is the *beginning of the end for pure, unencumbered Linux as we know it.
Amusingly, this is the "cancer" that Steve Ballmer was alluding to, where Microsoft embraces, extends, and extinguishes stuff. It won't be extinguished though, it'll be polluted with Microsoft's "improvements".
First it'll be fairly benign...then later it'll start to have "special features" that are MS-specific (that is, "Microsoft ONLY") and from there it'll be a relentless poisoning of Linux, bit by bit.
You laugh now, but you'll see. I was right all along, and this is just the opening move by Microsoft to fuck up Linux for the foreseeable future.
Never forget that Microsoft always, always, ALWAYS has its eye on the Long Game. If it takes them 10 or 15 years to pollute, ruin, and fragment Linux, so be it. They have the time and the money, everything else is just detail.
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How many times will Microsoft try (and fail) to make a successful phone before they give up and admit that they suck at making phones?
They've had about 10 different phone projects in the last few years and they've ALL failed miserably.
You're not making sense.
“Sometimes, the contributor himself discovers the flaw.” Sometimes, there is no flaw. Which do you think this is?
In this case, I'm the flaw for misreading, lol.
Why so irrational and emotional? If it's really a problem then all you have to do is provide your configuration and steps to reproduce the problem. Should be easy.
Here you go:
1) Open 2 or 3 instances of FF, then open 4 to 5 tabs in each instance. For example, a few email providers, a few forums, some news sites, etc.
2) Sit back and watch as the memory climbs and climbs. Using the actual instances and tabs is optional. It may take a day, but it will climb steadily.
3) If you don't personally see it occur, state that it must not really be a problem because it's not happening to you.
"to make sure your app's in sync"
Are the editors asleep, or just ignorant of basic punctuation?
FFS, hire me as an editor and all this amateur-hour shit will go away, 100% guaranteed.
It's just too fucking expensive. Yes, it's a cool phone, but fuck all if I'm going to pay $700 or more for one of them.
There are LOADS of perfectly acceptable feature-loaded phones you can buy for $200 to $300. No one has managed to explain why this phone is a good deal for $700.
Please, present some evidence to that effect. You'll be pleasantly surprised by what you learn in your search.
I've no need to do your homework for you, I experience the FF memory leaks on a daily basis. Right now with 5 tabs open for 24 hours it's gone from ~750Kb of memory to ~2.35Gb...in a little while it'll start to drop images, show me black/blank screens, slow way down, and finally either become totally unresponsive or just suddenly crash.
FFS, I've been seeing this kind of behavior (or similar) for the last 25 versions. But IE didn't do that, and Opera doesn't do that, and Pale Moon doesn't do that.
Oh, but I forgot- if you're not experiencing it personally, then it's all just fluff and anecdotal evidence and must not really be happening.
You're many, many, years out of date.
I wish you were correct, but you're not.
Wake me up when they fix that fucking memory leak.
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I can't remember the last time I actually found something useful on Twitter. What am I doing wrong? How do others make Twitter useful?
1) You won't find anything useful on Twitter. It's the confetti of the internet.
2) You're not doing anything wrong.
3) They don't.
Dump your account and you won't miss a thing.
"Twitter- now with twice the self-serving, narcissistic drivel!"
Silly citizens- how DARE you want to use the law to request things that you have the legal right to see?
"Are Companies Overhyping AI?"
Not withstanding Betteridge's Law, the answer is "yes". Yes they are.
Next clickbai- err, I mean "story", please.
Such actions include prohibiting drilling and attempting to prohibit fracking.
And I'm all for it. Let me know how much you enjoy fracking when it comes to your neighborhood.
But it's nice that it'll cost the suckers a little bit less when they try and drive to their non-existent healthcare provider.
I've been using Janson and Bookman lately. Futura for san-serif. What was the question, again?
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Thank you, I wondered if I was the only one who noticed this.
Considering there are tens of thousands of people making shitloads of money every day coding some serious, useful applications in in Python, I'd say you're mistaken.
Trump voters are the losers....Doubly so. They were losers who were sold a bill of goods by a con man and are going to lose more because of it
Bingo. The problem is that they're too stupid to see or understand it, even when it happens to them.
When they lose their jobs and medical coverage and are paying $10 for a gallon of gas, they'll find a way to blame Hillary or Obama or George Soros. They'll blame anyone but Little Donnie Two Scoops.
I apologize for the fact that almost no one recognized the sarcasm in your post.
Yeah, we'll get those coal miners their jobs back just as soon as we revitalize the mustache wax industry and provide lifetime subsidies to buggy whip manufacturers.
"providing an opportunity for President Donald Trump to tax imports from countries like China"
Awwww, Little Donnie Two Scoops is gonna start a trade was with China...how adorable!
I'm sure everyone will benefit from this latest bout of "my micro-dick is bigger than your micro-dick" diplomacy. Especially the Chinese corporations.
Not everyone is sitting home playing Tux Racer and writing GCC code.
You're right- where I work we use Linux on AWS to process tens of millions of medical transactions on a daily basis. Tux Racer sounds fun, but we have work to do and Microsoft is too slow, bloated, insecure, and expensive for us to bother with.
For example, AWS just added MS SQL to their BAA catalog, and we couldn't be less interested if we tried. DynamoDB and Redshift work better, faster, and at a much lower cost than trying to spin up a bunch of clumsy Windows instances that stumble even under a moderate load.
Also, AWS now bills Linux instances by the second- if you run for 5 minutes, that's what you're billed for: 5 minutes of run time.
But Windows is billed by the hour and so of course it costs a shitload more than doing the heavy lifting with Linux instances. If you run for 5 minutes, you're billed for an hour. That sucks.
Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible....all that stuff is waaaaaaay better on Linux.
If you want the non MS kernel you can still use it by not using Microsoft's cloud platform in the first place
Exactly. And frankly, as someone who's worked with both platforms, Amazon's Web Services is a far better platform and has much better infrastructure than Azure.
I've worked with both of them (currently working in an AWS shop) and although Azure has some great features, AWS is definitely better overall.
For years I've joked about Microsoft coming out with their own version of Linux... and now it has come to pass. Make no mistake- this is the *beginning of the end for pure, unencumbered Linux as we know it.
Amusingly, this is the "cancer" that Steve Ballmer was alluding to, where Microsoft embraces, extends, and extinguishes stuff. It won't be extinguished though, it'll be polluted with Microsoft's "improvements".
First it'll be fairly benign...then later it'll start to have "special features" that are MS-specific (that is, "Microsoft ONLY") and from there it'll be a relentless poisoning of Linux, bit by bit.
You laugh now, but you'll see. I was right all along, and this is just the opening move by Microsoft to fuck up Linux for the foreseeable future.
Never forget that Microsoft always, always, ALWAYS has its eye on the Long Game. If it takes them 10 or 15 years to pollute, ruin, and fragment Linux, so be it. They have the time and the money, everything else is just detail.
Oooooh, lookit the shill, see how he spins!