Why does TweetDeck consume as much RAM as my web browser?
gaius: It's insane when you consider what AIR applications actually do. The Facebook AIR client polls your newsfeed for updates and displays them in a rich text widget - 150M resident on this Windows PC after a few hours use. To put that into perspective I have a Tcl/Tk app that does more things (not FB, internal data feeds) running in 7M resident, no leaks.I don't see AIR as being usable for any "real" applications which are often left running for days at a time, and are far more complex. Still, hats off to Adobe for inventing something more ridiculously overblown than Java desktop apps.