It really depends on how you define the term "gamer". To many people, a "gamer" isn't just someone who happens to play games at some arbitrary point in their free time, it's someone whose primary hobby is playing games.
I think this is an excellent point, actually. I daresay most girls/women have picked up an XboX or PS2 controller at some point in their lives, but that doesn't make them gamers. Still, there are a few who game as a hobby, and in future it may be that there will be a fairly even split between men and women when it comes to gaming.
Either way, I think we need to lose the whole 'nerdy schoolboy gamer' stereotype.
This is nothing more than yet another instance of fabricated bad news about Firefox. Of course Opera has problems like this. You can browse around the Opera forums and find instances of Opera hogging memory and CPU. And yet no one says Opera is a memory or CPU hog. Go figure.
I think this is just a popularity thing - I mean, if there was many people using Opera as Firefox, we would probably have as many people bitching about whatever memory management issues, bugs or rendering problems it has. If everyone used Firefox, perhaps we would even see a "Spread IE" campaign emerging on the internet.
Personally though, I don't see that memory management is too much of a problem. I don't think I've ever had any browser use up so much memory as to interfere with the operation of other programs.
And as a small offtopic: I use SeaMonkey most of the time. I like it, too.
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I think this is an excellent point, actually. I daresay most girls/women have picked up an XboX or PS2 controller at some point in their lives, but that doesn't make them gamers. Still, there are a few who game as a hobby, and in future it may be that there will be a fairly even split between men and women when it comes to gaming.
Either way, I think we need to lose the whole 'nerdy schoolboy gamer' stereotype.
I think this is just a popularity thing - I mean, if there was many people using Opera as Firefox, we would probably have as many people bitching about whatever memory management issues, bugs or rendering problems it has. If everyone used Firefox, perhaps we would even see a "Spread IE" campaign emerging on the internet.
Personally though, I don't see that memory management is too much of a problem. I don't think I've ever had any browser use up so much memory as to interfere with the operation of other programs.
And as a small offtopic: I use SeaMonkey most of the time. I like it, too.