🤍 Appeal to the Browser Goddesses 🤍

Can we please make it a thing where 32GB of RAM isn’t an insufficient amount for day to day web browser usage? Getting an OOM core dump for that reason is inexcusable.

  • Should the Zoom browser app really need 2GB on a single tab when it’s already downscaling a 1080p feed to 320p on an enterprise account?
  • Should Amazon’s website really need 1GB per tab just to view the cart or a ~800Mb for a single simple product page?
  • Please remind me how an MKdocs fully static page with a single 400k image and no datatables or fancy JS somehow require 242Mb?
  • Or perhaps shed some light on the requirement where Google’s main page with a single search form somehow needs ~500Mb

There are no “good reasons” for these inefficiencies. We don’t suddenly have better search fields or compressed jpegs now vs a decade ago with 1/10th of the system resources.

#developer #webdev #linux #browsers #chrome #firefox #ensh11n

  • infeeeee
    14·
    1 month ago

    It’s not the browser but the websites.

    Two way video streaming will be always resource intensive.

    But for the other websites the choise is yours, you don’t have to use amazon or goog, there are alternatives.

    Also if you doesn’t have enough ram close the tabs. My 10 years old low end laptop with 8GB ram, I know I can’t have more than 6-8 tabs open at the same time.