On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:53:40 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
All the stuff you have running in hidden workspaces and browser tabs
is
still consuming memory, CPU time and other system resources. You might
see just one site being displayed but your machine is loaded with the
task of keeping dozens of web pages ready for instantaneous display.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You mean it's supposed to. But switching workspaces takes considerable
time -- more to switch to a browser than to the newsreader or a terminal,
and more to switch to firefox than to opera. And *everything* works slower
if firefox is open than if not -- including if Konqueror is open instead
of firefox.
I'm not surprised that a browser runs slower with several tabs open (even
though I keep things set to update as seldom as possible, like once a
week, unless and until I hit a reload button on one tab). That's worth it,
normally.
But it runs *way* slower; is there some exponential change in keeping one
more tab loaded? And why is it that firefox runs like cold mozilla all the
time, whether it has half a dozen tabs open, or a dozen and a half?
Multiple tabs don't slow opera down nearly so much as they do firefox.
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