• @proudblond
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    521 month ago

    The worst is when someone is sharing their screen in zoom and then complaining about the lag in Chrome, while you can see the 80+ tabs… I even mentioned it to someone once but did she close them? No. Of course not.

    • Lucy :3
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      1 month ago

      Honestly … I think that’s a myth. I have 200+ FF Nightly tabs open, and I did have up to five tab groups with 100+ tabs each, as well as dozens of Addons, including the notoriously laggy Dark Reader, and I don’t notice any slowdown I wouldn’t call acceptable - just the usual suspects (Teams and google apps) are crap, but that’s just incompatibility with standards on their part. And I don’t have any crazy PC or something, just a pretty old 5 2600 and for the most part 16 GB Ram (which did get pretty tight with Minecraft, Idea and FF running), now 32 GB Detotaded Wam.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 month ago

        Both Firefox (see about:unloads) & Chromium have a feature to unload old tabs when running low on memory. On session restore all tabs start unloaded

        • Lucy :3
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          81 month ago

          Yep. I even have an extension to manually unload tabs/tab groups. That’s why I wonder why even IT people say more tabs = worse performance.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        I didn’t realize Dark Reader was laggy or known to be laggy but it makes sense. It doesn’t matter in any case, you’d have to pry it from my cold dead eyes

        • Lucy :3
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          51 month ago

          Well it does alter the whole website, in consideration of other parts of the website, which means it fully parses it. Therefore a website is basically handled two or three times before it’s finally displayed.

      • Possibly linux
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        31 month ago

        Can’t you just… Close them? Why you you need 200 tabs? You do know about bookmarks right?

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            It’s a right click and delete. I keep a folder called tmp for exactly this reason. I really don’t understand why people do it but man it is infuriating watching someone do it. Maybe it’s a bit of ocd tendencies but I absolutely hate it.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 month ago

              I just shove the tabs in a seperate window and let them eat a couple gigs of RAM, webpages need a little snack sometimes.

        • Lucy :3
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          21 month ago

          Because they’re all active projects, and most of them are open “just in case I need that exact piece of information again”.