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modern browsers don't really keep hundreds of tabs open, they just keep a place holder and then return the memory back to the system as resources get low. I'm n
by lost_tourist 3y ago
modern browsers don't really keep hundreds of tabs open, they just keep a place holder and then return the memory back to the system as resources get low. I'm not sure why people think a browser can keep 100s of webpages open when modern webpages (tabs) often use 100MB->1GB of memory.
- dredmorbius 3y agoBrowser memory management has been improving, but when that system was last running, let's just say that things were bad.