The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs • Hacker News Board

Re: The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

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Post by kasabali » Fri, May 13, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #56

klue07 wrote: post #50

Any good alternatives recommended for Firefox?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ does the same thing (actually a little better in the implementation) on Firefox. Once you install, go into config for it and set how long a tab may be idle before it auto-unloads. Unloaded tabs are shown slightly dimmed in the tab bar. You can also right click tabs (such as gmail / youtube / etc) and force them to always stay loaded, so your email / music st…

> Combo it with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa.... that lets you organize your tabs into groups and you can have hundreds of well organized tabs without using much memory at all.

Be careful with that because every tab has a constant memory consumption even when not loaded, so it will actually have a noticeable memory consumption when you have several hundreds of tabs. I learned it the hard way.

Re: The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

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Post by Graziano_M » Sat, May 14, 2016, 11:18 PM UTC

maxschumacher91 wrote: post #24

A tool that has served me well in freeing up memory (both in RAM and in my head) is one-tab: https://www.one-tab.com/ Afaik, current versions of Chrome already implement the functionality of the great suspender natively.

I am a big fan on one tab. It's replace my 'toread' and 'pocket' completely.

Re: The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

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Post by aug-riedinger » Sun, May 15, 2016, 9:54 AM UTC

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #55

Every single new chrome release memory consumption just gets worse. Most recently a single window with 1 gmail tab takes ~500mb (If I recall correctly you could actually run windows XP on 256). I'm seriously considering rolling my browsers back to ~2012 and never upgrading again.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

Gmail has an internal behavior that adapts its memory usage on available memory. It may fail in some specific situation (short and wide memory leak), but as a whole the idea is to use RAM as much as possible to make gmail faster.

And yes, gmail lacks of a "low memory consumption" button for those situation where automatic memory usage detection fails.

There is video of google explaining this voluntary behavior but I can't find it unfortunately.

Re: The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactive Chrome tabs

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Post by forgotpwtomain » Tue, May 17, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

aug-riedinger wrote: post #93

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #55

Every single new chrome release memory consumption just gets worse. Most recently a single window with 1 gmail tab takes ~500mb (If I recall correctly you could actually run windows XP on 256). I'm seriously considering rolling my browsers back to ~2012 and never upgrading again.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Gmail has an internal behavior that adapts its memory usage on available memory. It may fail in some specific situation (short and wide memory leak), but as a whole the idea is to use RAM as much as possible to make gmail faster. And yes, gmail lacks of a "low memory consumption" button for those situation where automatic memory usage detection fails. There is video of google explaining this…

> Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

This is just ignorant cliche.

> Gmail has an internal behavior that adapts its memory usage on available memory. It may fail in some specific situation (short and wide memory leak), but as a whole the idea is to use RAM as much as possible to make gmail faster.

This has nothing to do with Gmail, this is entirely to do with chromium. When my X-Server starts to freeze because 8 tabs taking up 2GB of memory means the OS is intensely swapping to and from disk; I'll take my unused RAM, thanks.