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DougBTX on May 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac...

It would be fair for a browser to assume that if you’ve just visited one page that you might return soon, and so keep assets in cache for a little while.

hutzlibu on May 21, 2021 [–]

Well yes, if done right some browsercaching is fine.

But that could pile up quickly, so I am not sure if and how it is done in the various browsers.

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