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HTML5 Boilerplate

Posted by admin under HTML

If you haven’t heard about HTML5 Boilerplate yet, I recommend you watch this video and then try it out for yourself.

Go to HTML5 Boilerplate

Throughout the day I am a heavy user of my Chrome browser (version 5). I open, search, flip, close, rotate my tabs on a regular basis and I notice after doing this with the browser for a couple of days (without closing the browser) webpages start to slow done and stop working or even crashing. This is noticeable with webpages that utilize a lot of AJAX such Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Reader.

The only solution I find that works when webpages begin to crash is to close down the browser and re-start it. It seems to be a pain and something Google needs to address.

One theory I have is Chrome has an interesting feature that allows you to re-open a recently closed tab. Once re-opened all the history for that tab remains so you can go back or forth if necessary.

Could this collection of history be adding up and causing the browser to slow down and eventually crash?

Has anyone else experienced this with their Chrome browser?