Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by araes 800 days ago
Not here. Would much prefer something like evolved bookmarks, yet still very much separate from a bookmark I specifically chose. Evolved would be more like the browser just hangs onto History longer if you go there more.

Tabs, I donno, I'm not the target audience for Tabs. I'm on somewhat limited resource hardware, so keeping 100 tabs open is simply not feasible. All browsers run like slugs with 100 tabs open from personal experience.

With four tabs open on Firefox Developer 125.0b9 I have (6) main process groups with (8) further subprocesses for 1075 MB of memory while doing ... nothing.

The tabs are Not impressive. HN (2,text), WP (text), Gmail (text). Adding only Redfin and Facebook jumps me up 500 further MB in resident memory. Two tabs, no actions. How do the landing pages for two major companies eat 500 MB of resident memory statically?...

1 comments

firefox and chrome seem to have long embraced the philosophy of `why worry about memory usage when I know if it uses too much RAM the browser will simply crash or become completely unresponsive due to swapping forcing the user to reboot (or if very lucky only force-kill the browser) ........problem solved!'