Could someone please explain to me exactly why AOL's instant messaging client is currently consuming more than 29 megs of memory? That's more than the Windows shell. Two and a half times more than Outlook, which everyone complains is a hog. And almost five times that of Yahoo's IM client. That just seems insane to me. I know system resources are ridiculously cheap these days, but unless AOL's installed a complete peer to peer social software platform on my desktop that they're just waiting to spring on an unsuspecting public, I can't imagine what the heck they're doing with all that memory space...
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Mar 09, 2004
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The simple explanation is that it's full of spyware.
Posted by: Daniel Stoddart | Mar 09, 2004 at 05:58 PM
They landed a contract to sell pedabytes of mesh computing data resources to the TSA.
Trillian only uses 4.6M, btw.
Posted by: Jonathan Peterson | Mar 11, 2004 at 07:57 AM
Earlier this week I realized that winamp 5 was taking over 17Meg. I switched from modern skins to classic and got back 10M. Crazy.
Posted by: Jonathan Peterson | Mar 11, 2004 at 07:58 AM
yeah -- tried trillian yesterday, with the goal of having one app for both aol and yahoo. crashed on me four times in one day. so i'm stuck -- bloated or buggy?
Posted by: michael | Mar 11, 2004 at 09:42 AM
try trilian pro. it's worth the investment, and they're really good about bug fixes and patches. (yahoo switched their protocol a while back and cerulean had a fix a few days later.)
Posted by: richard | Mar 15, 2004 at 08:15 AM
Gaim for windows is pretty good. It's free, lightweight, has no ads, and support all major messaging protocols.
Posted by: Matthew M. Boedicker | Mar 25, 2004 at 02:04 PM
Just tried Gaim for Windows. Installed 0.75 from scratch, and upon launching nothing appeared. Nothing. Uninstalled. Reinstalled. Tried again. Nothing.
Ah, well.
Posted by: michael | Mar 25, 2004 at 02:31 PM
yeah -- tried trillian yesterday, with the goal of having one app for both aol and yahoo. crashed on me four times in one day. so i'm stuck -- bloated or buggy?
Posted by: Peter | Apr 14, 2004 at 07:45 AM