[freediver]

Not just M1. There is another thing on macOS that makes Google Chrome features faster and uses less RAM - native Safari.

Wondering if anyone did a test (speedometer or something similar) comparing Safari on average macbook vs $30/mo mightyapp.

[coliveira]

Exactly, I always wonder how much Safari is faster than competing browsers. I have dozens of open tabs and it just works. With other browsers, I cannot even work after a certain number of tabs.

[w7]

Indeed, I'm really bad at closing tabs. One day I wondered how many Safari tabs I had open on my pre-M1 2018 base model MacBook Air. I went into the tab preview pane and discovered it was around 480 tabs. Mind you this was in between system restarts so some were probably suspended or something, but still. I don't even notice with both IntelliJ and VSCode open as well.

[hasmanean]

People who don’t close tabs because they unconsciously don’t want to lose their search history.

At the end of the day your search history should be fed into a personal search engine which digests the data and figures out which pages were most useful to you (maybe by helpful browser buttons)…and uploads that into some open database. This can then be the basis for a new type of search engine.

It could be implemented trivially on something like Mighty, since everyones browsers run in the same datacenter.

[pmontra]

As a reference, I've got more than 100 open tabs on this Firefox Android (it counts them up to 99 then it displays ∞) and probably another one hundred on my desktop (Ubuntu /Gnome), split on five windows on five different desktops. I can't assess the speed of Safari because it doesn't run on my hardware. It could be faster but those Firefoxes don't feel slow and don't slow down when the number of tabs increases. I don't have a really large number of open tabs though.

[noloblo]

Microsoft edge has gotten very very good as well with sleeping tabs/ is light and all chrome extensions work seamlessly in edge