[qeternity]

Anecdotally, the M1 feels very performant with 8gb (I have MBP and Mini 8gb variants) compared to my 16gb Intel MBP and my 32gb Hackintosh.

That said - it’s not magic. 30 tabs in Chrome is a lot if you’re not using a tab suspender extension. But one thing I do notice is that when a Rosetta 2 app is running, the entire machine seems to take a hit. I would check the architecture of your apps and see if you have any x86 apps running.

[matznerd]

Lol 30 tabs is a lot? I'm running 32 gb ram on windows i7-6700 3.4 ghz on mini ATX and currently have 883 tabs open, using marvelous suspender and few other tweaks, but still have 95 windows opens (1 tab typically alive in each window minimum excluding my suspension blacklist...). Also have photoshop, notion, and a few other apps going and am running smoothly at 40-70% cpu utilization and 85% memory...

[noduerme]

Wow. That would literally send my OCD over the edge. I have a thing about closing all my tabs, reading all my mail, and having nothing on my desktop at the end of the day.

[qeternity]

> using marvelous suspender

Did you even read my comment?

[NieDzejkob]

GP does say that the amount of tabs actually running still exceeds the number quoted by GGP

[qeternity]

They’re not comparable numbers. 800 tabs with 799 suspended is a different beast than 30 active tabs.

[geerlingguy]

I think the "if you're not using a tab background suspender" part was important there.

Not sure if Chrome is still this way, but it would allow background tabs to still run things like JS even after hours of not being focused.

[mgerullis]

> 883 tabs open

There cannot be a good reason to do this, I start to get anxious at 20-30

[cunthorpe]

High tabs count are from people who don’t care to close tabs after they’re done or use them as a TODO list they never get to.

Browsers should default to closing unused tabs (after 30 days?) and I’m glad that’s possible now. If you haven’t seen a tab in a month chances are you never will.

[nottorp]

I'll have you know that I kept a tab open for 3 months, and only then I ordered the item displayed in that tab.

Yes, tabs as a todo list work. With a tab suspender extension.

[bserge]

> Browsers should default to closing unused tabs

Hey, what if I finally get to whatever interesting thing that tab had after 30 years of ignoring it?!

But yeah, I just "close other tabs" every few weeks because it's 99% guaranteed I won't need them.

[bdcravens]

> marvelous suspender

I totally missed that fork of TGS. Glad I saw this comment, as I hated getting rid of TGS.

[Sebguer]

why

[__float]

Seconded. I have 30+ tabs open (though in Firefox), alongside VS Code, Obsidian (a notes app, but with web views), Spotify (web views), and I don't frequently run into serious performance issues.

I do try to avoid Rosetta quite a bit though (right now I have no Intel processes in Activity Monitor).

Also check Messages.app hasn't run away with the CPU. Sometimes it seems to do that :(