6Foot2 Posted October 9, 2016 Posted October 9, 2016 Link: Google Chrome soon won't be such a burden on your computer ...The Chrome team working on V8, the part of the browser that runs the JavaScript programs that make websites tick, "significantly reduced the memory footprint" of websites like Imgur, Reddit, Twitter and The New York Times. The changes come in Chrome 55, due in December. How much? One aspect called heap memory dropped 50 percent on average; another called zone memory dropped 40 percent. More optimization is in the works especially for lower-end devices with less than a gigabyte of memory. 3
Arthur Posted October 9, 2016 Posted October 9, 2016 On PCs with 32GB RAM, only being able to open 1,238 tabs is a bit limiting so this is a welcome improvement. 2
Arthur Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 Chrome 55 has hit the stable channel. https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html 1
DalekSec Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 On PCs with 32GB RAM, only being able to open 1,238 tabs is a bit limiting so this is a welcome improvement. Who has a PC with 32GB of RAM!!! o ... wait a second 1
newpersn Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 Who has a PC with 32GB of RAM!!! o ... wait a second My work computer has 32gb of ram. Never see it go above 8-10gb on a normal day.
DalekSec Posted December 2, 2016 Posted December 2, 2016 My work computer has 32gb of ram. Never see it go above 8-10gb on a normal day. My home one most I've seen it on about 25gb when I was running a bunch of vms
mikeprice Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 Is it wrong that I don't even know how much memory my work computer has?? (but I do know that I don't tend to run out)
googlemad Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 A far bigger issue potentially for people deciding to roll this out (Especially in education!) is that HTML5 is now king and any sites which don't have a HTML5 option will fall back to Flash and you have to 'enable' the plugin for such sites to run the content. Could cause a few headaches... 32GB isn't really anything to write home about these days, I have 32GB in my PC and it cost <£100!
DJ-1701 Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) 32GB isn't really anything to write home about these days, I have 32GB in my PC and it cost <£100! What?... That must have been one hell of a deal from @ICTDirect_Dave! Edited December 3, 2016 by DJ-1701 1
Arthur Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 32GB isn't really anything to write home about these days, I have 32GB in my PC and it cost <£100! I upgraded my gaming PC to 64GB DDR4 RAM after noticing a pricing error on Amazon's website earlier this year. I managed to get it less than half price at the time (so ~£260). I thought that was a really good deal. What?... That must have been one hell of a deal from ICTDirect_Dave! I bet @ICTDirect_Dave has 256GB or 512GB RAM in his home PC!!! 1
RichCowell Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 Who has a PC with 32GB of RAM!!! o ... wait a second My work PC has 32GB, my member spreadsheet uses over 13GB of it when it's updating, and still takes several minutes...
Arthur Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 A far bigger issue potentially for people deciding to roll this out (especially in education!) is that HTML5 is now king and any sites which don't have a HTML5 option will fall back to Flash and you have to 'enable' the plugin for such sites to run the content. Could cause a few headaches... Flash can be controlled via Chrome's ADMX. HTML5 by Default The following presentation demonstrates the current state of HTML5 by Default (HBD) and is meant to give an idea about the standard user flow and prompts. There maybe some minor changes, although the current UI should be viewed as effectively complete.
DalekSec Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 Just updated it, I have 32gb RAM, before the update my 6 tabs (plus other stuff) was on 25% of memory usage, after the update it's on 18%! Lovely improvement
Dos_Box Posted December 3, 2016 Posted December 3, 2016 My work computer has 32gb of ram. Never see it go above 8-10gb on a normal day. I'll have to get @ZeroHour to boost up a screen grab of his task manager for you all. More tabs than a 40 a day chain-smoker! 1
Michael Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 Do we need a new ADMX template, or does the existing one do this?
Arthur Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 Do we need a new ADMX template, or does the existing one do this? Comparing the Chrome ADMX I downloaded in October to the latest ADMX, there isn't anything new relating to Flash Player so the existing templates should be fine depending upon when you last updated them.
sted Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 you can now download an msi from adobe for flash for chrome and just fire that out as normal not sure it enables it but ive started seeing installs of chrome that were forcing users to download flash this seems to of stopped that. Lets hope some well known educational websites finally move away from flash content to html5
Arthur Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 you can now download an msi from adobe for flash for chrome and just fire that out as normal not sure it enables it I think you also have to disable component updates for Chrome to use the system-installed PPAPI Flash plugin over the built-in plugin. https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ComponentUpdatesEnabled https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=572131#c165 I've started seeing installs of Chrome that were forcing users to download Flash. Like this...? Lets hope some well known educational websites finally move away from Flash content to html5 Perhaps they will start looking into the possibility of switching to HTML5 the day after Google completely removes Flash from Chrome and in the meantime ask users to use Internet Explorer.
mavhc Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 My work PC has 32GB, my member spreadsheet uses over 13GB of it when it's updating, and still takes several minutes... 13GBs? Do you have photos of everyone embedded in it? The entire bible is 1000th the size
RichCowell Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 (edited) 13GBs? Do you have photos of everyone embedded in it? The entire bible is 1000th the size No, the actual file size is only 1.5MB... Just uses 13GB+ when it's updating... Edited December 4, 2016 by RichCowell
mavhc Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 No, the actual file size is only 1.5MB... Just uses 13GB+ when it's updating... That's really weird, any idea why?
RichCowell Posted December 4, 2016 Posted December 4, 2016 Yes, 16,000+ formulae & array formulae... Got formula calculation set to manual so it's okay, until I click to update...
ICTDirect_Dave Posted December 5, 2016 Posted December 5, 2016 I bet @ICTDirect_Dave has 256GB or 512GB RAM in his home PC!!! Nah, I've got a mere 32GB PC3-19200 (2400MHz) in my Gaming Rig, and 16GB 12800 in both my Macbook Pro and Gaming Laptop. However.... The Z820 I'll be showing off at this year's BETT Show will have a whopping 256GB RAM!!! 3
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