What the "H" is Chrome and Firefox doing ??

[Frank McCormick]

On 01/23/2015 05:20 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Hard Drive runs constantly,
>
> I don't get quite the blockage described in the original post,
> but certainly when I start google-chrome for the very first
> time after a reboot, it spends vast amounts of time rattling
> the disk, which I assume has something to do with all the
> cached data it stashed in my home directory since my system
> disk is an SSD and doesn't rattle :-).
>
> It takes a long time for the bookmarks and icons in the
> bookmark menu entries to show up.
>
> This is starting it with a blank page as the initial
> home screen, so no web sites are involved.
>


    Yeah, Chrome has gotten really bad lately (the last few weeks).
Subsequent start-ups go a lot faster as I guess it has cached some of
its stuff in memory. On my machine Firefox starts up faster.