So I’m reading the comments of a fastback memory usage post on Ben Goodger’s blog, and people are saying they rarely use the back button more than one or two times in a row, and storing 8 pages is maybe a little excessive.
And I just realized, I often use it not once or twice or eight times, but twenty or more. You see, I have a few html-based games I play, and when I’m moving around a map I can be loading over a page a second. And when I want to, say, go back and see the results of the last battle, that can be quite a few pages back even though it happened less than a minute ago.
Contradict that to slashdot where I open each story to read in a new tab and never use back at all, or google where, if I think I know what page I’m looking for but I’m wrong, I use it exactly once at a time. All in all, I think it’s pretty obvious that with such a wide range of usage even from just one person!, some sort of pseudo-intelligence is needed here.
As a disclaimer, I’ve never noticed any memory problems at all, though. Perhaps that’s because I have a gig of RAM and use Linux, and Linux’s memory management and multitasking/multi-userness generally pwns Windows’.