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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by dzhiurgis on Monday March 04, 2024 @02:40PM (#39594979)
What? I’ve caught Safari using 22GB of memory another day.

Open 1000tabs and it will kill any machine.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by Perepiska on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:28PM (#39595600)
Since a person cannot look at 1000 tabs at the same time, most of the tabs can be frozen. I'm writing to you from Firefox which has 826 tabs right now.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by dzhiurgis on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:24PM (#39596971)
Congrats, you are in the top 7% of users who uses this horrible browser.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by nulld3v on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:09PM (#39597404)
Firefox is just really good for handling huge amounts of tabs because you can install alternative tab UIs like Tree Style Tabs and scroll/search tabs like they are bookmarks.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by Dah00n on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:57PM (#39597292)
Clearly you are not a web developer. Safari is by far the worst browser today. The new Internet Explorer.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by sgarland on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:10PM (#39597818)
Until Netflix supports full res in Chrome, and until Chrome battery consumption is on par with Safari, I’ll keep using Safari.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by Tagbert on Monday March 04, 2024 @02:49PM (#39595089)
Any browser can use massive amounts of RAM if you open a lot of tabs. Especially if they are running a lot of JS that doesn't release its memory properly. There are some sites I can go to that just continue to chew away at the RAM as long as the tab is open.

In any case, it's pretty easy for the OS to swap out browser data as it is chunkable by tab. Just because it had allocated 22GB doesn't mean that it was all active. Must was certainly swapped to SSD.

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