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FilterJoe on Feb 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

Yes. Sandboxing makes sense when you think of browser as operating system. Isolate each process to increase security and crash-resistance. Makes sense, but it takes more memory.

emodendroket on Feb 13, 2015 [–]

Frankly I have more memory than I need for most tasks so I don't mind this trade-off.

frozenport on Feb 13, 2015 | [–]

On the other hand memory memory takes more time to read, potentially leading to latency.

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