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And they say Notes is a memory hog

Darren Duke  December 3 2009 01:11:31 PM
So I have 3GB RAM on my XP Lenovo ThinkPad T500. I had a fair few windows open as I have started my LS10 presentation. Every time I did something the computer was pretty slow. So I popped open task manager and found this:

Image:And they say Notes is a memory hog

Seems like Firefox and TweetDeck are almost as RAM hungry as Lotus Notes. And this with only 3 tabs open in Firefox.
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Gravatar Image  1Chris Miller  12/3/2009 2:22:44 PM  Firefox will eata lot with tons of extensions loaded too

Watch and see which you have loaded and if the tabs have java on them which seems to slow it down again

Gravatar Image  2Darren Duke  12/4/2009 7:50:57 AM  @1, no doubt

Well, I just found Mika's post and it is now SeaMonkey for me (no Hartlepool monkey quips, please!) to see if I like it. I will never, ever use Chrome as, well, all Google does is evil. I'd use Internet hole-splorer before I tell Google even more about myself. And now they have DNS too. When will people stop trusting the Walmart of IT?

Mika's goodbye firefox post.

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