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		kzrdude on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac... I find that the browsers eat all my memory. Have to exit them for data crunching.

imtringued on May 21, 2021 [–]

I have hundreds of tabs in Firefox. Total memory usage is 4GB at worst.

carlhjerpe on May 21, 2021 | [–]

Could it be that not all tabs are loaded into memory at all times? I use Firefox with Sidebery and a boatload of tabs, most of which aren't loaded at all.

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