What are browsers even using that much memory for these days? Are websites really half a gig or more now or what are the browsers loading to use up that much?
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 8:40 PM Emil Lundberg <lundberg.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/14/23 17:01, Polarian wrote: > > Yes expect each tab to take anywhere between 500mb to 1gb of memory, this > is not a bug this is literally how heavy (bloated, if you want to say it) > firefox has become. > > That's not how memory works. I routinely have tens of tabs active (and > literal hundreds inactive), and my Firefox currently sits at a resident set > size right around 500M. Counting memory use is surprisingly difficult > (libraries are shared between processes, to name just one thing) and I > won't claim to fully understand it myself, but it is simply not true that > browsers consume gigabytes of memory per open tab. > > > Mozilla has not been trustworthy for over a year now, with the integration > of tracking such as pocket (saving your personal data to mozilla cloud) > > Then don't use Pocket if you don't want to save personal data in Mozilla's > cloud? > > > along with the Mozilla VPN they keep trying to urge you to use to track > even more of your data, > > Mozilla VPN is a partnership with the VPN service operated by the very > well regarded Swedish VPN provider Mullvad [1], which does not track or > even store customer data [2]. I can't speak for what, if any, data Mozilla > collects via their own front-end to it, though. > > [1]: > https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-been-updated-mozilla/ > > [2]: https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/ > > > > /Emil > > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Timo Prömer
