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About time, though I wonder what's the impact on performance. I realize these are not the jquery days where most people would write stupid selectors over and ov

by oblak 4y ago

About time, though I wonder what's the impact on performance. I realize these are not the jquery days where most people would write stupid selectors over and over again but nothing is free and I feel it's important have performance in mind even when it seems most of the web don't.

jiggywiggy 4y ago
Yeah we lost the battle of performance, mac m1 chrome easily runs 2-4gb with few tabs open.
- rahkiin 4y ago
  Did you try with Safari instead?
  - Cyberdog 4y ago
    As someone who primarily uses Safari on an 8GB Mac mini and 8GB MBA, I've found there's two things which reliably cause memory to spike. One is opening the developer tools. Have more than a couple tabs with the dev tools open and I can easily have Safari itself go over 8GB and I start to feel the thrashing when switching between apps and stuff. Closing dev tools for certain tabs when I no longer need them helps. Two, for whatever reason, is streaming YouTube videos - not playing pre-recorded ones but watching livestreams. I suspect the culprit is actually the chat box but I'm not sure. For now, if I want to watch a YouTube stream for more than a couple minutes, I'll usually pass it to Streamlink which allows me to watch the stream through VLC and bypass the web interface entirely - I don't participate in or care about the chats anyway. https://streamlink.github.io https://streamlink.github.io I even set up a Zsh function I can invoke with "sl" which automatically fires up Streamlink with whatever URL I currently have in my clipboard. https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/Dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc#L80-L86 https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/Dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh... Incidentally, if you open up Activity Monitor and go to the Memory tab, it'll show you how much memory each Safari tab is using… well, sort of. It uses the domain name of the site as the "Process Name," but that's not very useful if you have more than one tab open with a page from the same domain name. I really wish they'd put the full page title and/or URL in there and/or let you switch directly to the offending tab from Activity Monitor. All that being said… Naturally, Safari is the most well-integrated and performant macOS browser, and it puzzles me why even self-described Mac fans would use anything else for anything other than testing.
    - FractalHQ 4y ago
      I don’t use Safari because it breaks more random stuff on websites than any other browser, has horrible support for WebGL, struggles to render gradient / animated SVG under many circumstances, has a terrible extension ecosystem, and has a lot of random bugs that annoy me. I also have 0 performance problems with browsers because I have the luxury of owning many powerful machines, each with 64gb ram.

by oblak 4y ago

jiggywiggy 4y ago

Yeah we lost the battle of performance, mac m1 chrome easily runs 2-4gb with few tabs open.

rahkiin 4y ago
Did you try with Safari instead?
- Cyberdog 4y ago
  As someone who primarily uses Safari on an 8GB Mac mini and 8GB MBA, I've found there's two things which reliably cause memory to spike. One is opening the developer tools. Have more than a couple tabs with the dev tools open and I can easily have Safari itself go over 8GB and I start to feel the thrashing when switching between apps and stuff. Closing dev tools for certain tabs when I no longer need them helps. Two, for whatever reason, is streaming YouTube videos - not playing pre-recorded ones but watching livestreams. I suspect the culprit is actually the chat box but I'm not sure. For now, if I want to watch a YouTube stream for more than a couple minutes, I'll usually pass it to Streamlink which allows me to watch the stream through VLC and bypass the web interface entirely - I don't participate in or care about the chats anyway. https://streamlink.github.io https://streamlink.github.io I even set up a Zsh function I can invoke with "sl" which automatically fires up Streamlink with whatever URL I currently have in my clipboard. https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/Dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc#L80-L86 https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/Dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh... Incidentally, if you open up Activity Monitor and go to the Memory tab, it'll show you how much memory each Safari tab is using… well, sort of. It uses the domain name of the site as the "Process Name," but that's not very useful if you have more than one tab open with a page from the same domain name. I really wish they'd put the full page title and/or URL in there and/or let you switch directly to the offending tab from Activity Monitor. All that being said… Naturally, Safari is the most well-integrated and performant macOS browser, and it puzzles me why even self-described Mac fans would use anything else for anything other than testing.
  - FractalHQ 4y ago
    I don’t use Safari because it breaks more random stuff on websites than any other browser, has horrible support for WebGL, struggles to render gradient / animated SVG under many circumstances, has a terrible extension ecosystem, and has a lot of random bugs that annoy me. I also have 0 performance problems with browsers because I have the luxury of owning many powerful machines, each with 64gb ram.