• refalo@programming.dev
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        11 months ago

        horrible take IMO. firefox is using 12GB for me right now, but you have no idea how many or what kind of tabs either of us have, which makes all the difference to the point your comment has no value whatsoever.

        • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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          11 months ago

          I’m not the person you responded to, but I can say that it’s a perfectly fine take. My personal experience and the commonly voiced opinions about both browsers supports this take.

          Unless you’re using 5 tabs max at a time, my personal experience is that Firefox is more than an order of magnitude more memory efficient than Chrome when dealing with long-lived sessions with the same number of tabs (dozens up to thousands).

          I keep hundreds of tabs open in Firefox on my personal machine (with 16 GB of RAM) and it’s almost never consuming the most memory on my system.

          Policy prohibits me running Firefox on my work computer, so I have to use Chrome. Even with much more memory (both on 32 GB and 64 GB machines) and far fewer tabs (20-30 at most vs 200-300), Chrome often ends up taking up far too much memory + having a substantial performance drop, and I have to to through and prune the tabs I don’t need right now, bookmark things that can be done later, etc…

          Also, see https://www.techspot.com/news/102871-zero-regrets-firefox-power-user-kept-7500-tabs.html - I’ve never seen anything similar for Chrome and wasn’t able to find anything.

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    I have 32GB and regularly fill both that and my swap space to the point where my system freezes up and i have to restart.

    i am quite tabby though. And vscode has become quite a memory hog and i usually have several of those open too as i work across different projects

    • hector@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      I have this misunderstanding even if I use Linux a lot that when I work for a long time with a lot of things opened… my RAM fill up and never get down.

      I heard it had to do with swap, can you quickly explain why?

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Its more likely caching. They just keep the cache of files opened earlier so that its ready for you if you need it immediately again. Also unused ram is wasted ram