I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
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Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#2Said no one ever.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#3I would switch to Firefox if they managed to support the basically unlimited amount of tabs I can open on Chrome without any slowdown or degradation.
There's probably a better way to manage it, but when you're going down the rabbit hole of stackexchange and Google to try and figure something out, it's an extremely invaluable tool for me personally.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#4Not a good quality article I don't think. It's just venting and opinion, there is no data or insights.
And I have bad news for the author: Firefox is usually the #1 consumer of RAM on my machine.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#5You know what eats up RAM? Having auto-playing videos, translucent overlays and Javascript.
Techradar takes 65MiB of RAM to display, including ad blocking by pi-hole and several add-ons. Hacker News takes a bit more than four. Sure, Firefox will eat less RAM, but with sites like these, any browser will eat RAM like crazy.
Want to stop browsers from eating RAM? Make better websites. No news website should require 6MiB of RAM just to store Javascript.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#6You know what eats up RAM? Having auto-playing videos, translucent overlays and Javascript. Techradar takes 65MiB of RAM to display, including ad blocking by pi-hole and several add-ons. Hacker News takes a bit more than four. Sure, Firefox will eat less RAM, but with sites like these, any browser will eat RAM like crazy. Want to stop browsers from eating RAM? Make better websites. No news website should require 6MiB…
^^^^ This!
How about we strip all the crap first and then complain.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#7Author's using Windows..
Latest FF on Windows seems to have issues with rendering.
Loading up posts on old.reddit.com leads to the DOM glitching after a few seconds and elements disappearing.
Happens frequently on pages with lots of comments. Something glitchy going on.
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#8People who complain are always the ones with 100+ tabs at all times. Just use bookmarks
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#9Discussed earlier:
Re: I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
#10Most modern websites end up allocating an absurd amount of RAM. Although there are certainly some that are more lightweight.
I have found that Firefox uses less RAM than Chrome for my workloads. That being said, if you have limited RAM, the amount used by either is still extremely high. I suggest installing Auto Tab Discard [1] for Firefox or The Great Suspender [2] for Chrome. These will allow you to discard tabs and reload them later without closing them. Please do note that any state on the page, aside from scroll position, will be lost. This usually includes text entered into complicated forms.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...