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Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy? (feddit.nl)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

i remember not using firefox for a rlly long time bc i heard it’s ram usage with multiple tabs open was a lot less efficient than other browsers. idk if that’s true but i use firefox w 4 windows with 20+ tabs each and have never had a problem

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this may still be true, we just tend to have more RAM nowadays

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ah makes sense. i also have a pretty big swap file so i think that helps a bit when im doing other ram intensive stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's not true currently. Firefox and Chrome trade blows on which is more performance and which uses more/less RAM these days. It varies, but they're quite close.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

When tested with 10 tabs open, Firefox occupied about 960MB of memory, which is only slightly less than Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

For awhile Firefox's JavaScript engine used more memory, but those gaps have been mostly filled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I currently have 130+ tabs open in Firefox and 90+ in Chrome in addition to some other programs open and running (libreOffice, vpn, and others) Everything is working fine on my old laptop with an i5 processor and 16G ram and windows 10, ssd hd

I can't really game on this, and trying to run a virtual machine is a slog.

But VS Code, database, xshell, calibre, audacity, photopea, even basic video editing all run fine. Granted I usually do one project at a time, so I'm not using VS Code and editing videos at the same time.

The browser tabs are usually always open. Oh, and I actually just cleaned up my tabs. There were a lot more..

I feel like the memory issues are mostly worked out now for most of us.