Bit Matrix

I run Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 beta on my Ubuntu box. Every time that Chrome is left on overnight, the following morning its memory consumption is in the hundreds of MBs (300-400MB) and it is fully utilizing one of my cores while doing nothing. I usually leave the browser open with 2-3 simple HTML tabs open (no Flash or heavy JavaScript).

On occasion, when this happens, Chrome actually kills some of the offending tabs after a few minutes of me trying to unsuccessfully interact with them.

I certainly hope that this gets fixed as Chrome runs quite well on weak hardware, like me EEE notebook. However, I don’t appreciate overheating one of my cores all night long for doing nothing.

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As someone who is no friend to Facebook, I was quite interested to hear that Google will be stepping into the social networking world with their newest product: Google Buzz. The introductory video looked good enough showing a slick, simple interface, easy message, photo and video posting and an good time to be had by all. Perhaps, I thought, this means Facebook’s hegemony over the social networking sphere was coming to a close. Anything is better than Facebook’s blatant disregard for privacy right? Wrong. Read more…

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