Comment by philsnow

Comment by philsnow 7 hours ago

Firefox is particularly good at having lots of tabs open and not using tons of memory.

    $ ~/dev/mozlz4-tool/target/release/mozlz4-tool \
        "$(find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/ -name recovery.jsonlz4 | head -1)" | \
        jq -r '[.windows[].tabs | length] | add'
    5524

Activity monitor claims firefox is using 3.1GB of ram.

    Real memory size:      2.43 GB
    Virtual memory size: 408.30 GB
    Shared memory size:  746.5  MB
    Private memory size: 377.3  MB

That said, I wholeheartedly agree that "more RAM less problems". The only case I can think of when it's not strictly better to have more is during hibernation (cf sleep) when the system has to write 128GB of ram to disk.

autoexec 6 hours ago

In my experience firefox is "pretty good" about having lots of tabs and windows open if you don't mind it crashing every week or two.

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lemoncookiechip 6 hours ago

I've not had a crash on Firefox in like a decade, basically since the Quantum update in like 2016.

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- autoexec 5 hours ago
  
  Try living like I do. I currently have 1,838 tabs open across 9 different windows. On second thought, maybe don't live like I do...
  
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