Keep your GMail page closed!

Posted on May 19th, 2009

Just a little something here that I’ve noticed especially on my macbookpro which I routinely overload. I used to always have a browser window open with my gmail in it. Turns out GMail puts a lot of load on the browser process, way too much to just have it open all the time. I’ve noticed this in FireFox 3 on the mac for the most part.

Since I’ve had plenty of issues with FF on the mac it may just be that. Safari 4 beta seems much better but still, it generates too much load. I can imagine it is busy checking for mail and other things but it is not really an acceptable back ground process.

Of course on my workstation who cares … 8 cores can deal with it :)

Tags: firefox, gmail
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