Dear @Firefox and @Chrome... WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK X MEANS? Since neither of you actually honor it.pic.twitter.com/R2mlphORMv
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@dorianmuthig @Firefox @Chrome X meant 'close the app' for a long time. an app can waste memory. these are simple truths.
@attritionorg @Firefox @Chrome The X means close the window. That's all it means. It never meant terminate an application process.
@dorianmuthig @Firefox @Chrome for a LONG time it meant terminate the application process.
@attritionorg @Firefox @Chrome It didn't mean that in @Windows 2.0, so why should it now?
@dorianmuthig to the user, it did. and for a long time, it actually terminated a process for many apps.
@attritionorg ... all the user really cared about.
@dorianmuthig respectfully, fuck off with your developer pedantry. NOT MY POINT
@attritionorg You can take memory from being available to something else. "Free memory" is wasted memory. App memory is not free memory.
@dorianmuthig are you trolling me? because seriously...
@attritionorg No, I am not. I am telling you something you appear not to understand about memory management.
@dorianmuthig Yes, you are. You are talking 'last few/several years', in dev world, not user world. Your use of 'never' is just wrong.
@attritionorg In terms you can understand: The developer documentation for @Windows has never called for the X button to terminate a process
@dorianmuthig https://twitter.com/attritionorg/status/604538172245078017 … yep, qualified user vs dev...
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