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The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months (www.techspot.com)
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[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Because Firefox is still the same legendary memory hog it's always been

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you keep 1000 tabs open, maybe. Otherwise, it's not too bad.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More like a hundred.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Guess it also depends on your system. I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open with no issues ... but I've got 80GB of RAM to go around, so it's fine.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open..

You savage! I feel like I'm living crazy when I have 10 open!

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

16GB. I put off upgrading for wayyy too long, and now look where I am

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you all just leave your browser open and running all the time?

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Firefox memory hog issue is worse if you use Windows

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

...I do. 😔