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macOS just notified me that one tab in Safari was using so much memory it was threatening performance of my laptop. The website in question? https://idioms.thef
by vonseel 8y ago
macOS just notified me that one tab in Safari was using so much memory it was threatening performance of my laptop. The website in question? https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/ https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/ It was close to 2Gb RAM usage. Bunch of ad-tracking stuff, I assume, as Firefox and its related processes seem to be using less than 1250mb with 6 tabs open, including the site mentioned in 2 tabs. My firefox has uBlock origin installed.
Seemed related to the second paragraph in your comment
- always_good 8y agoLast week my bandwidth grounded to a halt which is usually the result of someone uploading on my network. I went to my girlfriend's computer to see if she was syncing with Dropbox or something. Nope. She quit all of her applications just to be sure. Except for a single browser tab opened to a recipe for pita bread. Yep, turned out that a recipe for pita bread was saturating our router because what looked to be buggy error-handling for ad-related network code. I think her ad-blocker only partially maimed it, so it went apeshit.
- richk449 8y agoHow was the pita?
- LiterallyDoge 8y agoFound the Hufflepuff.
- JanisL 8y agoSounds like a PITA recipe
- antisthenes 8y agoThere is a certain irony about a dictionary web-page using 3 times more memory than it takes to store the entire Oxford English dictionary (and accessory publications), that is undoubtedly more complete.