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firefox rule (slrpnk.net)
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[-] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Sorry, the only solution is the web aborting JavaScript. never going to happen. trust me, i stand with richard stallman when it comes to javascript.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

wat. lol. javascript has nothing to do with the memory consumption. just humans being shitty at their jobs.

[-] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

I will agree with you that VANILLA JavaScript isn't to blame, but all the frameworks and packages are.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, being shitty at their jobs. even the frameworks/packages are not to blame. its which you pick and how you use them.

for peoples context: just checked a few sites most range in the 30MB-150MB per page. which is pretty reasonable for the complexity of the websites involved. one included a streaming service actively playing a video.

Its just that these things add up across 100 tabs.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Disagreed, memory Limiting definitely helps with over-consumption. Can't consume all the RAM when you only have access to 8GB of it.

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

I still think the catgirl paws salute should be the new salute of the American Résistance.

I also think the catgirl paws salute should be recognized as a salute.

[-] lychee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago
[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, you got like a 85% chance that anyone giving you software advice is, closer to 98% for hardware advice.

[-] shoki@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

wait is that that shoebill

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