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by jeroenhd 2483 days ago
You know what eats up RAM? Having auto-playing videos, translucent overlays and Javascript.

Techradar takes 65MiB of RAM to display, including ad blocking by pi-hole and several add-ons. Hacker News takes a bit more than four. Sure, Firefox will eat less RAM, but with sites like these, any browser will eat RAM like crazy.

Want to stop browsers from eating RAM? Make better websites. No news website should require 6MiB of RAM just to store Javascript.

1 comments

^^^^ This!

How about we strip all the crap first and then complain.