I reckon I’ve got quite a strong long term memory. For instance, I can recall that time I read Stoner on a backpacking trip through Italy and realising that I particularly like sad books. I can also recall the delicious taste of a Mars Delight chocolate bar. But my short term memory, whew. Yeah it’s not so good. And the demo for Disposition, a liminal escape room game where you’ve got to remember how things are arranged in rooms, has hammered this point home.
Chrome introduces new ‘Performance’ tools to wrangle the tabs gobbling up your memory
Google is introducing some new Chrome storage management features to help you manage runaway tabs more easily. The updates include new “performance issue notifications” and some tweaks to the existing memory saver mode, which already tries to free up the resources of inactive tabs in the background. The new warnings appear when a new performance … Read more