I'm not sure that is worth complaining about. Chrome running with no tabs open is only using a bit over 100MB. So I would not say they are not concerned about such things. It enables them to build tools like AddressSanitizer and LeakSanitizer for detecting memory allocation errors and leaks. A lot of the motivation for that effort is to build better software. On the other hand Google has invested a lot of time into Clang/LLVM the C/++ compiler. The same goes for most webkit and mozilla based browsers. Though QupZilla also fails to release all of the temperary memory buffers that it alocates, which quickly takes up available dynamic area RAM no matter how much you have, and also means that if you are using a system that supports diskpaging it quickly begins slowing things down as it runs out of physical RAM. Per example QupZilla (which I am using to write this) is a WebKit based browser and supports HTML5 and most of the extra stuff including CSS 3, ECMA Script, etc. Unfortunately they have generaly become so fragmented and disjoint as a result of to many cooks in the kitchen that they often have significant memory leeks. Good in that they support a lot more formating and scripting, bad in that they have had a lot of bloat creap in, do to so many people just reimplementing functionality that is already there to be used. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. They have had multiple decades of development more than what netsurf has had. They have also had masses of development in that time and now a days mostly agree how to display web pages. I don't even care if it handles HTML/CSS badly.Įdit, sure Mozilla, webkit etc have been around a long time. What I dream of is a browser that can run Javascript and supports webgl that runs into the frame buffer. Though as fast as it is evolving it will not take long to get these features, it has only been around since 2002, so it is a youngster in the Web Browser world, any of the well known browsers have at least a core that is much much older than any part of Netsurf (Mozilla based, or WebKit based, etc). Ok so Netsurf is just getting JS, and it does not have things like HTML5 video. It is a modern browser, that is improving fast, and it is my prefered Web Browser on both RISC OS and Atari TOS+MiNT, as well as one I use a lot on Linux. Realy? NEtsurf did is barely that old at all. More likely a consequence of using an ancient browser that does not understand some recent, as in less than a decade old, CSS tricks or is is just plain buggy. If you disable JS in Chrome or Firefox that page still looks fine. Heater wrote:Nope, nothing to do with Javascript.
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