[ale] more power

[Paul Cartwright]

and so it starts, yet again..

snydeq writes "Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 herald a new,
resource-intensive era in Web browsing, one sure to shift our conception
of acceptable minimum system requirements, InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy
concludes in his head-to-head comparison of the recently announced
multi-process, tabbed browsers. Whereas single-process browsers such as
Firefox aim for lean, efficient browsing experiences, Chrome and IE 8
are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple
Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs. To do
this, Chrome takes a 'purist' approach, launching multiple, discrete
processes to isolate and protect each tab's contents. IE 8, on the other
hand, goes hybrid, creating multiple instances of the iexplore.exe
process without specifically assigning each tab to its own instance.
'Google's purist approach will ultimately prove more robust,' Kennedy
argues, 'but at a cost in terms of resource consumption.' At what cost?
Kennedy's comparison found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an
average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE
8 itself consumes more resources than Vista, surely announce a new, very
demanding era in Web-centric computing."

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2244226&from=rss

I was going to try Chrome, maybe not...

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Paul Cartwright
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