Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : McDoob
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Mar 28 2022 22:40:16

-=> McDoob wrote to Blue White <=-

 BW>  Mc> Got myself down to 79 tabs. Still too many, but not nearly as too man
 BW>  Mc> as before...
 BW>
 BW> Sorry, you may have said already, but what browser do you use?

 Mc> Firefox, Win 11 x64

 BW> The ones
 BW> I use would overload just about any of my machines if I had that many
 BW> tabs open.  The only one I can think of that might not would be Links2,
 BW> but it does not really have tabs... it would be 79 open windows for that
 BW> one.

 Mc> I tend to forget about any resource usage on this machine. It's got 32
 Mc> GB of RAM and an overclocked i5. Also, Firefox is a bit different. The
 Mc> tab isn't 'open' until I actually click on the tab, after starting
 Mc> Firefox. It stays open after that, though, which can definitely cause
 Mc> Firefox to wind up at full CPU usage, and somewhere north of 4 GB
 Mc> RAM...until I restart it...

 Mc> OTOH, I rarely use the browser on any of my other computers. I would
 Mc> imagine they'd all start complaining pretty bad if I did. (o_-)

The more power that they offer in computers, the more profligate and wasteful
we become.  I'm using a computer with 2G of RAM.  Must admit, it originally had
1G and that wasn't enough, but 2G is just enough.

But I used to browse with multiple tabs on 384M of RAM before.
 
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