I stumbled across a lemmy thread via one of my RSS feeds, and the OP is posting about Firefox becoming very slow in cases where they've kept many tabs open for several weeks without restarting:
https://lemmy.ml/post/23531550
I very quickly got distracted by some of the replies which make OP's computer usage appear extremely normal and reasonable...
> Dawg I had like ~35 tabs open and hadn’t restarted my PC in over three weeks. Fucking Firefox was sucking back 80 gigs of RAM. 80 fucking gigs.
bruh what the heck do you need 80 gigs of RAM for? What are you doing?
a reply to that:
> True that, I just thought it was crazy. I had recently upgraded to 96 gigs of RAM and I just never imagined a browser would actually suck up that much.
I do a lot of computer-touching, but my 16GB of RAM feels like a lot to me.
> I currently have a bit over 2400 tabs open, and it has been roughly a month since I restarted firefox for being too laggy. It is becoming an issue again.
2400 tabs??!?!
this makes me think of those TV shows where they visit the homes of people in the end stages of a hoarding situation, just before somebody calls in the city to condemn the home because it's becoming a public health and fire risk.
@ansuz Speaking as someone with a lot of tabs, for me it's a workaround for bookmarks not having any contextual memory (in what context the page was open, what other things were open near it, etc.) - bookmarks could absolutely replace my tab usage *if* they were implemented differently from the standard 'entry in a list' design.
(And also, this is a disability aid for me.)
