Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by superkuh on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:24PM
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And inherently a far less ram using browser. I do 500 tabs in under 3GB. By also not implementing all the useless attack surfaces like DRM, Integrated PDF reader, WebRTC, and friends it avoids many of the exploits which make modern browsers like FF and Chrome insecure. Overall it probably balances out. Especially since PM users are likely to have JS execution disabled by default (like I do).
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by fabrice_d on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:07PM
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It's pointless to say things like "500 tabs under 3GB" without knowing what's loaded in these tabs.
Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by skinkestek on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:26PM
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Can you think of any realistic tab set that would result in Chrome or Firefox using as little memory?
Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by fabrice_d on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:00PM
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I'm not the one that should prove anything here.
Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by skinkestek on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:30AM
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My point is that if you cannot create a single tab set that beats what GP mentioned in your preferred browser then his browser still uses less memory.
That said, none of this is scientific so I will leave it here.
Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan
by superkuh on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:03AM
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Well, it's not Facebook, Twitter, Discord or the like. I'll to you that. It's mostly actual websites written in HTML (like HN). But even with no websites loaded if you tried to open 500 blank Chrome tabs you'd run out of RAM. That's just the nature of per-tab many process browsers.
And 500 is just my actively loaded tabs. I have another 500 suspended.