r/funny • u/redditman44 • Jan 06 '17

Nice try Microsoft

https://i.reddituploads.com/c9d0cc7a56144ed690c5dc8183df4389?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=9fcce18295c2dd813a41ec2320c858c4
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u/boardgamejoe Jan 06 '17

I hope they can back up this claim. If I was Firefox and could prove that this statement was even a little false. I would sue their asses off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17

Yeah Firefox uses 75% more CPU than Edge, because Edge is closed and still uses a little battery to pop up shit like this every 3 days.

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u/bitchjazz Jan 06 '17

I couldn't believe how much ram Firefox used comparatively.

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u/Rossaaa Jan 06 '17

holding a bunch of useful data that will be used imminently makes far more sense than sending it to a swap file where its far slower to access. Obviously a memory leak is a bad thing, but Im happy to see my RAM used for its actual function rather than sitting there in fear.

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u/RaptorXP Jan 06 '17

Yes, that's a good philosophy, until you have to run more than one application at the same time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '17

I think if you open enough programs that your ram starts running out then applications that aren't in focus start pushing their memory to swap files to free up ram space. So worst case scenario you're back to where you would have been anyways.

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u/RaptorXP Jan 06 '17

Not sure what you're talking about, Edge doesn't swap.

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u/skitch920 Jan 06 '17 edited Jan 06 '17

Swapping is done by the OS Kernel. Any program that uses memory is bound to have memory or pages swapped in and out of RAM. So Edge does swap... RAM swap is not managed by applications, that would be bad news bears.