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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

I've been using the Firefox extension "Auto Tab Discard", which helps a lot with RAM usage. I like multi-tab-browsing and IME browsers just don't free up RAM when other applications need them.

[-] hex@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

wait so you just lose tabs you haven't opened in X mins?

i have a tab sleeping extension & generally throttle the ram with opera

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

It might be a bit of a misnomer. The tabs aren't deleted, just forcibly unloaded, and you can even prevent it from doing that on a per-tab-basis.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah so it just means the tab's going to need to refresh when you click back to it. That seems perfect honestly, it's already what most phone browsers do more aggressively. Cheers :)

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I tried that but I found that its effects on long term memory leakage weren't adequate for me, and it still consumed way too much RAM. Which is why I just decided to limit RAM for Firefox. It achieves a similar effect as the browser unloads tabs when it runs low on memory, it just doesn't wait until it's using 31GB of RAM and instead just uses up to 8GB (which is what I capped it at) before unloading tabs.