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>I have so many tabs open that I run out of memory Are you on Safari? If so even switching to Chrome would have helped, and if you are have more than a hundred
by ksec 2y ago
>I have so many tabs open that I run out of memory
Are you on Safari? If so even switching to Chrome would have helped, and if you are have more than a hundred tabs than use Firefox.
>Bookmarks suck, search sucks, saving browser sessions sucks
Completely agree as it has been the case for the last 25+ years since Tabs were invented.
I keep the Tabs opened as more like a ToDo-List. Saving me from going back and forth so I understand your frustration. Having drop down list in Chrome and Firefox allows you quickly Garbage collect from unused tabs. Which is already much better than the old days as this is a fairly recent additions. ( May be pass ~5 years )
Tree-Tabs sounds good in theory but in practice over the past 15+ years or so most of the tree tabs implementation dont work for me. Mostly an UI issue. Category of Tabs or sometimes called Tab Group seems to be the closest thing. I actually quite like Tab Groups on Chrome, and surprisingly Firefox over the years have tried many implementation but nothing like what chrome has offered ( at least by default )
I use Tab groups on both Safari and Chrome, one group for HN, one group for RSS feed. These two groups keep nearly 80-90% of new tabs generation for me already. So while it is not perfect it is a lot less of a mess than what I had. The rest are random thoughts that came up into my mind and I need some tabs research into it.
- msephton 2y agoSafari is quite memory efficient and only stores metadata for inactive tabs, mostly the URL. I currently have 262 tabs in a single Safari window. Memory usage nothing or of the ordinary, a small fraction of my total.
- ksec 2y agoAs far as I aware Safari dont "unload" tabs after a period of time for inactivity. ( At least that has been the case both on my home and work machine ) It was an option as part of Dev Tools but was taken out. They haven't been doing unloading from Safari 8 to 17. Using Tab Overview, Unplugging Power Adopter, along with some other functions will trigger reload of all Tabs. Which causes crazy paging, my current Kernel_Task has written 60TB of Data over 6 months. That is 10TB per month. The only way you have true inactive Tabs is if you restart Safari. On recent Chrome and for Firefox they have been doing it since Project MemShrink and at least 10 years. So for those who close their browser windows every now and then or shut down their computer at the end of the day they may be fine. ( Still possible for force reloading of Tabs on Safari though )
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThere is aggressive unloading on Safari on iOS (iPhones and iPads).