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Old 04-17-2009
I upgraded my iMac from 512M to 2.5G RAM today. Let's see if there is much improvement when I open so many tabs in FF and Opera Smilie
# 9  
Old 04-18-2009
You guys will probably think I'm crazy but I have 102 tabs open in Opera right now.
I also have pidgin running and 3 mrxvt terminals all running `vim` using `screen`, and thunar on XFCE and I have 768 RAM.
Still, Opera is smooth as ever Smilie Of course, I've disabled a lot of the flowery stuff on Opera...I've found that the feature where you display a thumbnail image when you roll over a tab to be the most memory intensive.

If I open Firefox right now with even 10-20 tabs, it's just going to run really slow!
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Old 04-19-2009
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Originally Posted by cbkihong
Yes you are right. However, to most ordinary users, unlike development tools, whether a browser is being open-sourced or closed-sourced is not an important consideration at all. What they are concerned is whether it is convenient for them, and display the sites well. Very few people would actually modify a browser engine, provided the browser has a plugin API for extending browser functionality. Today's browser rendering engine is a piece of complex mess that improper modifications may lead to subtle rendering issues.
My concern is less the ability to modify it as much as the ability to use it on systems and architectures its owners don't care about, and the propensity of closed-source software to sprout adware and price tags at will, or just up and collapse leaving its users high and dry. I've seen it happen to plenty of other things.
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