Browsers eating RAM

#1

Post by todsacerdoti » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 1:56 PM UTC

Browsers eating RAM
flotato.com

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#2

Post by alecmg » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

graphs don't show for me on page

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#3

Post by cute_boi » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

its sad not to see firefox :(

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#4

Post by karmakaze » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

> * Macbook 16" from 2019 with2.4 GHz, 8-Core Intel Core i9 with 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM and an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB GPU

Nice specs (32GB RAM) but perhaps not representative of the norm.

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#5

Post by rovr138 » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC

Flotato,

From homepage,

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From their help page,

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Looks like you can create apps of your websites. And it looks like it does it using Safari's engine.

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#6

Post by rovr138 » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:46 PM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #4

> * Macbook 16" from 2019 with2.4 GHz, 8-Core Intel Core i9 with 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM and an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB GPU Nice specs (32GB RAM) but perhaps not representative of the norm.

Depends on the audience.

HN audience wouldn't be too bad.

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Post by felixding » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:46 PM UTC

Wanted to learn about flotato after reading the post but the hamburger menu doesn't work on Firefox mobile...

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#8

Post by QazCetelic » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

Could it be similar to the "Linux ate my RAM" situation and that the RAM is used but still available?

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Post by Yoric » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

QazCetelic wrote: post #8

Could it be similar to the "Linux ate my RAM" situation and that the RAM is used but still available?

As the author of a task manager, I can confirm that RAM usage is... complicated.

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Post by random42_ » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

Off topic: a bit hard to read on iOS Safari because left margin is 0 (or close to).

Back to the subject at hand: Chrome is a memory hog and there’s nothing new here, but nice to see the comparison with Safari. Too bad Firefox wasn’t part of the test.