• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    I’ve been using the Firefox extension “Auto Tab Discard”, which helps a lot with RAM usage. I like multi-tab-browsing and IME browsers just don’t free up RAM when other applications need them.

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      5 hours ago

      wait so you just lose tabs you haven’t opened in X mins?

      i have a tab sleeping extension & generally throttle the ram with opera

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        5 hours ago

        It might be a bit of a misnomer. The tabs aren’t deleted, just forcibly unloaded, and you can even prevent it from doing that on a per-tab-basis.

        • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 hours ago

          Yeah so it just means the tab’s going to need to refresh when you click back to it. That seems perfect honestly, it’s already what most phone browsers do more aggressively. Cheers :)