Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads
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It's the constant over use of DNS pings to track your location because its good data to sell
Look fuck them but my PC location data has got to be the least juicy datapoint they could possibly ask for. Surprise, it stayed on my desk.
Microsoft found something worse than Java
JavaScript
Javascript by itself isn't an issue. Many applications use javascript without issue
The problem is chromium and bloated graphical frameworks
A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.
ECMAScript, the core language is fine.
JavaScript—with the DOM APIs—is not.
It's several distinct web views running simultaneously. I wonder why the memory footprint is not reused across these
no it doesn't. i've never been served an ad by microsoft weather. btw i use arch