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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: >> >> On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:02 PM, David Cantrell wrote: >> >>> If you go here in a browser: >>> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/tree >>> >>> and then try to search for an author: >>> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=free&s=larry >>> >>> then you get back some broken XHTML, which at least some browsers (eg my >>> Firefox 3.6) can't render: >> >> I had no idea they were still doing security updates for 3.6, but they are. FWIW, newer firefoxes deal just fine with it. > > I'm considering an "upgrade" to Firefox 3.6, as I'm fed up with how the > later versions are so profligate with RAM. I'm *not* running CromeOS - > there are things I want to on my machine in addition to running a > webbrowser. Whenever I've looked at "about:memory" it seems like the Javascript engine takes more than half of the memory. For example, my Firefox right now is 951.74MB "explicit" (total-ish) with 540.92MB (56.83%) as "js". Runner-up is "heap-unclassified" at 260.32MB (27.74%) with "layout" a distant 4th at 39.31MB (4.19%). I'm tempted to go turn off everything matching /^javascript.*jit/ in about:config because once I start swapping the performance of the Javascript is the least of my worries. Although you could say they made the same space/time trade-off as Perl. (My experience with Chrome isn't much better from a memory standpoint.) > Or maybe I should start browsing the web with emacs - at least in comparison > it's parsimonious with memory. Links (v2) has graphics and Javascript nowadays. It's the "links2" package in Ubuntu or at <http://links.twibright.com/download.php>. Guess I'll go see how usable it is, just for kicks. -- George GreerThread Previous