Steps to reproduce:
1. Went to https://brutalist.report/
2. Set limit to 50
3. Opened the 50 most recent HN links in new tabs
4. Observed no problems
5. Opened 10-20 more tabs, got bored
6. Used this snippet suggested by ChatGPT to count memory usage: `ps aux | grep -i 'Firefox' | awk '{sum += $6} END {print sum / 1024 " MB"}'` ....result: 18134.6 MB
I'm running uBlock Origin which I presume helped a little. I also have 64GB of RAM, which I presume helps a lot.
Total RAM usage for Chrome measured in that manner was 16844MB, although it's not an apple-to-apples comparison; I had Firefox running for a while before opening those 50 tabs.
Safari launched about 40 tabs with no issues, and then subsequent tabs simply contain an error message: "The operation couldn't be completed. No space left on device". Total RAM usage seems to be about 20GB. The remaining tabs seem perfectly functional; there is no "crash" but obviously there seems to be some kind of limitation here.
Not sure WTF that error is. Some Google results suggested turning off "hide IP address" but that had no effect. My boot drive has over 1TB of free space so that's not it.
UPDATE: I installed Adguard for Safari, and was able to open 100+ tabs with no problem.
Is there a browser that doesn't crash
when I have 50 tabs open?
RAM usage as reported by Task Manager was ~6GB. (This counts memory differently than ps)