?Have you tried closing your browser and re-opening it? I'm sure there are memory leaks in just about every browser there is. I run SeaMonkey though, which is based on Firefox, but even I close my browser once in a while. You do know you can restore your tabs right?

Of course. That doesn't really help though. I can watch the memory usage instantly climb back up to 4 GB in a couple of minutes. It's not the result of a slow leak. It's literally just that bad.

I have never found this useful. It's not like there's a single tab that is using 3 GB. The usage is pretty evenly spread out among the tabs, and the worst offenders are usually the most important to me (gmail, etc.).

I don't think that's true. In the past, Web sites were much more optimized. There was less content, and more efficient content, so they often loaded faster. Also keep in mind that our Internet speeds are much faster than they were in the past. 10 years ago I probably had DSL and was probably lucky to get 250 kb/s download speed. Now I have a cable line that can easily reach 25 mb/s download speed.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160317/09274333934/why-are-people-using-ad-blockers-ads-can-eat-up-to-79-mobile-data-allotments.shtml

The only sites that need to do this sort of thing are sites that have "feeds" of updates for new data. E.g., social media, image galleries, etc. And in those cases it's fine because it's better to load up parts of the data before you get to it than load the entire document/site. That said, the vast majority of Web sites do not work like that. There is no constant stream of new data to feed users, or large collections of images to stream to users. There's usually a fixed amount of text content with minimal images.

The argument is more so that higher level languages are sufficiently fast to execute, much safer in terms of memory safety and the like, and much easier and shorter to write and maintain. For many programs, the performance penalty is negligible. It makes sense to write them in a high-level language far away from the metal that is quick and easy to write and maintain, safe, and just works. Other programs, that you use regularly, or that have a lot of work to do, still need to be precisely optimized in a low-level language closer to the metal. Browsers should be candidates for the latter, though I'm not sure to what extent that's true. Certainly I think an effort is made, but they're building on some really bad decisions that can't be unmade.

That may not be enough in some cases. Those like buttons, they are the trackers, so if you're doing something, the best option would be Private Browser mode/tab/window (or whatever it's called in your browser of choice). Might want to check uBlock's filter list for privacy stuff.

Not sure if they can track your banking stuff anyway. The tracking stuff is like the ads on the sites anyway.

I noticed that as well. Selecting multiple lines of source code is a royal pain as it comes out as all one huge line, no linefeeds at all. I will usually select it with line numbers included which help me know where the start of each line is.

I use Firefox, but I can select, copy and past anyting else from the browser, just not some of the code you find in a scrollable box. It won't include the linefeeds.

I can copy and paste this with no problems...

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

int main()
{
  printf("blah blah");

  return 0;
}

But not this. If you click on SELECT and copy it, then paste it, the whole thing will be all one huge line without linefeeds.

I just looked at the code, and it's a div tag instead of a pre tag. Most likely, we see the line breaks because some CSS is changing things to make the div act like a pre.

SeaMonkey 2.49.1 does not suffer this problem. I can paste into CodeBlocks just fine., and into another SeaMonkey tab, and into a text file.

I believe that is the case.

I believe there was a similar issue copying between XHTML and HTML with Firefox.

I had an issue where copying from Google Docs to a textarea did the same thing but found that pasting to then copying from notepad or something like it first worked.

I just installed Chrome and it seems to be working really nicely. Different than when I used it years ago. Imported everything from Firefox and so far it seems to look better somehow.

I may just stick with it, at least for a while anyhow.

I looked at that Firefox bugzilla and when I seen "3 years ago" I realized that wasn't getting fixed anytime soon so time to change I guess.

Thanks torhu, I am already reminded why I dislike Chrome. It disables video downloading extensions on Youtube, so I'll stick to Firefox.

I'll keep chrome on as a backup option, but I am reminded why I prefer Firefox.

Edit: On Firefox again and I tried your suggestion and it worked like a charm.

Sorry for the late reply but thanks for the nice comments .

@Edgar, you click on the left/right side of the screen to move left/right and space to perform an action (e.g., search the dead guy, open a door).

I'm working on a few projects here and there (Bubblegum [vector graphics in C], Discworld [a "GameDB" and goal planner], and ItsyScape [a dumb little game]; they're all related) so when they're more mature I'll add them to my site. Everything on my site is old, but it's pretty solid, I think.

Speaking of which, I should push my changes, ... I've only been pushing ItsyScape. Oh well.

We have to post more often if we're to keep this thread alive, people!