[rescue] tired of current GUIs / a rant about the daily garbage we put up with

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:14, John Floren <john at jfloren.net> wrote:
> 2. We're dealing with bigger/more complex content. One reason (not the
> only reason) Firefox now chews up 3 GB of memory is that each page is
> pretty fat. Some of this is due to lazy web programmers loading up on
> external Javascript and fonts etc., but some of it is just due to the
> fact that images / videos / etc. have to look better these days.

I'm not so sure it's just that.

I mean, q.v. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

--
Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com
Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven
UK: +44 7939-087884 - DR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053