A wonderful post about technology

You find the beginning of the post here :

Technology: OK, but you will pay for me right?
Human: Sure! Will do.
Technology: Will you also update me from time to time?
Human: OK, I can do that.

............................................ read it here!

IE handles memory better than firefox?

As i was working in my laptop, i felt the system went slower. When I examined the task manager (windows), i found that the highest amount of memory was held by firefox (312 MB). I closed firefox and re-opened it. I wanted to examine how firefox gulps up memory - with zoho mail. Here is the result.

Note : zoho mail opens a new browser window for every compose. I used IE 7 and Firefox 3.

	Firefox	Internet Explorer
System memory before opening browsers	484 MB	484 MB
After opening browser	515 MB	506 MB
After opening zoho mail	546 MB	532 MB
After opening compose window	556 MB	542 MB
After opening compose window 2nd time	562 MB	543 MB
After opening compose window 3rd time	570 MB	541 MB
After opening compose window 4th time	583 MB	541 MB
...	...	...
After opening compose window for some more times	622 MB	541 MB

Enough care has not been taken in firefox to clear-up memory after a window is closed (or some add-ons should be causing this madness). When I tell 'firefox consumes more memory' or 'memory is not handled well in firefox', it is not a new story. But there was lots of buzz before the release of firefox 3 that lots of work has been done to handle the memory issues, but just not good enough. I use a laptop with 1 GB RAM. People using older laptops should suffer with firefox.

May be fast is not enough.