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"Closing a Browser", 2024

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30 August at 6:33 | Open on mastodon.social
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JacksonBates
Felix 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇺🇦

@fribbledom Not only memory. I left a browser with a few tabs open and some JS crap kept the CPU really busy.

30 August at 6:49 | Open on mstdn.io
Raphael

@fribbledom It's so fucking annoying. Why they can't just put a memory limit in those things like any user-respecting app, I cannot fathom.

I'm only ever looking at a handful of tabs at the same time, for heaven's sake!

Firefox is particularly bad (can't say for other browsers) because they don't garbage-collect closed tabs. Not even when you _tell it to optimize_ on about memory! 🤬 It just keeps growing and growing until system memory is full -- and not even _then_ does it give way! AAARG!

30 August at 6:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
Damien (TIG BUSINESS)

@OmegaPolice @fribbledom i'm old enough to remember "we should all get rid of netscape because firefox is better at memory management"

now my 32G machine swaps everytime i change task

30 August at 7:11 | Open on aus.social
m0xEE

@OmegaPolice
Try this extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef
Firefox does some of it itself so I've never seen it grow indefinitely, but this one limits it further. I've configured it to only allow five tabs to remain active — probably not for everyone, but it works for me!
@fribbledom

30 August at 7:20 | Open on social.librem.one
Alex

@fribbledom It sounds ridiculous, but what else are you doing on your computer than browsing Facebook? Why would it not use all the RAM if that's all you do? 🤔😂
Btw, Chrome?

30 August at 7:29 | Open on swiss.social
Григорий Клюшников

You can save a lot of memory by disabling JS JIT.

30 August at 9:14
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