@winterschon@bsd.cafe Today’s browsers are monsters, designed to serve overloaded and bloated websites. Today’s websites and web-apps are designed to take everything just because it’s there. I miss the good old days of the internet, when it was mainly designed for sharing information in plain text format (that was the time even before annoying gifs showed up). But unfortunately these days will never come back.

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.

Try appealing to the website goddesses.

@winterschon@bsd.cafe it’s usually not as bad as it looks though, browsers will use ALL THE RAM if it’s available because why not, you know? Better to use the memory and make everything fast rather than just leave it lying around! They’ll adjust their usage downwards if other apps need the memory.

@winterschon@bsd.cafe even my client-side javascript lookingglass (https://lg.as57777.net) does not need such resources (and that includes a few 100s KiB for ASN&community details)

@winterschon@bsd.cafe I’m on my 8gb RAM Mac and would love to keep using it

@winterschon@bsd.cafe I'm not good in benchmarking websites in the browser, but I made a webring for our community this week. can you benchmark it please?

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danke!

@winterschon@bsd.cafe FWIW, for some reason turning off hardware acceleration seems to reduce overall memory usage. Somehow. Doesn't make sense (it should only affect VRAM) but it helps.

But your fundamental point stands. A simple page uses far far more RAM AND CPU than it should. I like to do a handful of things on a little mini PC I bought a long time ago (I use it sort of like an HTPC) but the processor it uses shoots up to 60+C just opening some sites. Simply opening the site. If I open two bad tabs at once it spikes to 70.