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by graystevens 2943 days ago
Same experience here - we run a docker instance of Chrome using tabs for multiple pages rather than multiple browsers, and they regularly run for days without issues. Of course their RAM usage gradually expands but it is easy enough to systematically stop & start the container, thanks to some built in error and fault handling to retry any requests which failed.

I can’t say I’ve seen one tab bring down the entire browser, but I’m sure thats feasible, but thanks to docker and the fault handling above, it’d restart the instance and be up within seconds.

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This is what I've initially noticed as well (app will run for several days and eventually the account will cancel due to unavailability ... you'll get paged).

The screenshot I showed in that post is an instance that's been running for _months_ under high load. I can't stress enough that using tabs/pages will always result in frequent restarts which can be really tricky if there's other sessions that need to gracefully finish.