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It’s not the browsers. It’s the single-page apps. I can have 50 HN or readthedocs tabs open in Firefox with negligible memory impact. But two to three tabs of
by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s not the browsers. It’s the single-page apps.
I can have 50 HN or readthedocs tabs open in Firefox with negligible memory impact. But two to three tabs of apps (say, Gmail and Trello) or a handful of over-engineered news and blog articles, and it’s swap city plus beach balls from CPU usage. And that’s WITH ad blocking on.
On Mac, Safari is the least awful offender, but the bar is pretty low.