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Re: Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

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night-rider wrote: post #45
sshine wrote: post #15

I like the alternative of treating tabs more like bookmarks better. So instead of explicitly bookmarking a page, not closing a tab is the indicator that you may be more interested in this page in the future than any page you visited in the past. In the meantime, you don't think that having many bookmarks requires more RAM. As for the faster load times, I can see the lure, but I think it's a sellout. I'd like to know…

I only recently learned that people like to tab-hoard, hence addons like one-tab that collapses your tabs into a neat page for revisiting later. That’s just how people use their browser. They assume their machines can hold all those tabs in the background but are then shocked when their CPU fan whirs violently. Remember a browser is the most complex piece of software on your system apart from the OS and has to do man…

I use Auto Tab Discard [0], which offloads tabs after a period of time. They still show as normal tabs (with a "ZZZ" icon to indicate it's been discarded), and the website reloads when I switch to them.

When I open the browser after closing it, the session is restored with all but the current tab offloaded so it opens quickly and using very little resources.

My current session has tens of tabs, only a handful of them active. It uses about .5% CPU when idle, and less than 1Gb RAM.

[0] https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html

Re: Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

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Post by cassianoleal »

jjdirac wrote: post #42
heipei wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the kind of people that need high-performance productivity apps for their jobs but can't afford to upgrade to a $1000 M1 Macbook Air but will be able to spend what I assume will be more than $10 / month indefinitely /s

Bro I _have_ a $1000 M1 Macbook Air, and it's slow af when I browse the web. Constantly lags, freezes, runs out of RAM. And that's a $1000 that I have to spend every few years, for just a mediocre experience (Since by the time it's 4-6 years old, it's virtually unusable for anything but the simplest of websites). Maybe if people just wrote more HTML+JS rather than these big hefty "500kb of JS" React-based websites, t…

I also have an M1 MacBook Air. It's very snappy on both Firefox and Safari.

Sometimes when I woke the computer up from sleep, Firefox would be crazy laggy. I suspect some resource leakage but at least RAM and CPU were fine. Closing and reopening the browser would work around it.

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