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A comment on Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by epigramx on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:11AM (#16561897)
> I'm perfectly willing to wait a second

I'm not. I open dozens of pages simultaneously routinely. 1 second here, one second there, it adds up.

Sure, it's not the end of the world, but those differences were why Chrome was better than Firefox.

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:34AM (#16561934)
You cut off the "if I haven't touched the tab in an hour" part.

How many times does that pretty-narrow situation happen to you in a day?

If you had such a memory-saving mechanism, boosted by prefetching the tabs adjacent to my current tab, it would barely cost me any seconds in an average week. Running low on memory is a big hassle taking a lot of seconds to deal with.

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