nkedel

I'm very happy with medium-wattage LED lights of that sort, although I tend to prefer fewer higher-wattage fixtures for which LED bulbs are still pricy. I've been putting them into new fixtures, but pretty much all my existing ones are still CFLs and will be until the presently-installed ones die. Hopefully 100W (or better yet 125W) equivalent daylight LED bulbs will be more affordable by then; if not I may look into some 2-into-1 splitters for the 60W.

I discovered something interesting with LED bulbs: the "bulb" is purely for diffusion. I broke the glass on a relatively expensive 75W bulb, and the LED elements in the bottom work just fine bare (indeed, they probably are better cooled without it.) Very nice change from incandescents (toast) or worse yet CFLs (where the paranoid-of-mercury sorts would freak out on a break.)

I am really hoping to get my roof insulated in the next few years and when that's done, get solar panels. At ~35c per marginal kilowatt hour (ones closer to baseline are cheaper but we're up around 200% already) solar will pay off pretty quickly.

Chrome and Firefox run tabs and windows the same way (internally; there are differences between Chrome and Firefox and how they handle process isolation) Both won't (normally) ever run a whole second instance, although they can be subverted to do so.

Try Process Explorer (from Microsoft) : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...sexplorer.aspx although I'm not sure it will give the specific additional information you want, it's pretty much the most detailed view of what's running available.

unmesh

If I understand what you are trying to do, hit Shift-Escape in Chrome and it will pop up a windows showing what each of your tabs is consuming. You can select a tab and click on the End Process button to close it.

As I type this, my Gmail tab is north of 1GB of memory, for example.

LAXlocal

Why does Gmail take so much ? its mostly text

I just checked on my Chromebook and its 418meg for Gmail

It would be nice if they just loaded the first page or 2 of Gmail, no reason you need all of it on the spot , or at least give you the option.

Chrome browser is only 209 meg , which even seems high ,

I think they just throw in everything on every program ,, including the "kitchen sink" and do not have levels you can use , from Basic web browsing to full on production,

and since memory is "cheap" there is no reason to do "tight" coding anymore , when you think back to all you could do on a Mac SE box with a meg of memory,

Are there websites that have set-up "low resource" set-ups for popular browsers like Chrome , firefox , etc ?

nkedel

Many. Often loading the mobile version is effectively that, and some (notably Gmail and Facebook) have basic HTML versions with limited Javascript.

For Gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
For Facebook: https://mbasic.facebook.com/

Also, the main thing that uses RAM on here is a mixture of aggressive caching (to seem faster) and the fact that Javascript is a huge steaming turd of a language.