@fribbledom It's so fucking annoying. Why they can't...

@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!

Like 30 August at 6:59 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io

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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: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/
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