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This is absolutely correct. A non-technical friend's circa-2010 15" MBP with 8GB and hybrid Fusion drive (custom, by me) runs at full memory usage and high cpu
by chadgeidel 11y ago
This is absolutely correct. A non-technical friend's circa-2010 15" MBP with 8GB and hybrid Fusion drive (custom, by me) runs at full memory usage and high cpu utilization and is quite sluggish from my perspective. The reason? 150+ tabs open in Safari.
I'm not certain said friend is aware that many tabs are open or even cares, but web browsing is quite cpu and memory intensive, and can cripple even fast machines.
- marpstar 11y agobrowsing the web used to be "viewing HTML documents", now it's more like a virtual machine being used to host applications.
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- umanwizard 11y agoHas {s,}he tried other browsers? I vaguely remember that in Firefox or Chrome, memory for a tab is kept together (tabs don't stomp on each other's pages) so the OS will naturally page it out when you haven't looked at that tab in a while. This might not be true but I thought I'd make the suggestion.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoFirefox remembers your tab icons and names between sessions but won't load the pages unless you interact with that tab. Most folks with 150 tabs open never look at more than a handful of them. Note that pinned tabs will always be loaded as the assumption is you're using them for chat or something similar which needs to be loaded each time (messenger.com, hangouts.google.com, etc).