OMFG, I totally ate the onion for a minute.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2024
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It's bc it said two, isn't it? If it had been more believable and just said one...
This may be the onion now, but just wait until we end up needing extra sticks of RAM just for Chrome haha
Wait? Normal people are constantly buying an extra stick of ram because their browsers slow down too much.
We may not realize it’s a problem because the tech sphere (and especially the pc gaming sphere) is famous for overbuying. I used to frequent buildapc over on that other site and there are daily posts of people asking if their RTX 3060, 10th gen i5, and 16gb of ram is good enough for basic gaming and getting told no “actually you need at least a 4070, 13th gen i9, and 32gb of ram just to be low end!”
Hell, I used to be a frequent commenter on lowendgaming and would constantly have to butt heads with gamers who believed that a 4060 ti was low end.
It’s an unhealthy mindset that a lot of pc powerusers have that makes it impossible for them to engage reasonably with articles like this because they simply cannot wrap their heads what is actually normal in the world of pc users. /endrant
I dunno. If someone's building a PC, they are most probably using it for more than just chrome-level stuff. And for me at least, if I'm going to spend the time and money on new components, I'm going to get the biggest and best that I can afford/justify. The higher end comments are going to fair much better as tech develops further along, and I consider them an investment into not going through the same process again in just a few years time.
Right, and some people built a PC and bought high end gear 10 years ago.
Nobody did it so its a duty. Use Firefox people
Can someone ELI5 why chrome is such a fucking memory hog ?
As someone who develops web apps for a living...probably all the shitty websites / apps out there.
Product doesn't care about optimizations, they care about speed to market / customer. That means I also have to not care, so all the code is janky AF and full of nice O(n^2) or worse algos and keeping shit tons (hundreds...thousands...tens of thousands...) of full 100+ data point payloads in memory even though the app only needs one tiny field from it. etc. etc.
Also all that telemetry. Yum.
I recently learned my friend works at a company that has telemetry in their web app that screenshots the page and sends back what the user is doing every 3 seconds or something. As well as the current state of the app. It lets developers rewind/replay situations for debugging. But the sheer amount of data captured and sent over the wire blew my mind.
edit: Sorry ELI5...lots of sites are suboptimal in design and hold on to or track a lot more than is actually needed for proper functionality. Couple that with telemetry that either Google or the web app itself wants to gather on everything you do and you're in for a bad time.
It's partly that. But also a lot of it is Google Chrome tends to just use a lot of RAM anyway. If you go into settings and actually limit the amount of ram it can have it's normally not a problem as long as it's not limited too much which means it doesn't actually need as much as it takes.
And it does give up RAM when it's required. It just likes holding on to it.
Jeez and I thought I was sloppy. It's equal parts malice and incompetence
Ah ok thanks.
Holy fuck the ads on that site make it nearly impossible to read
Edit: on Firefox on Android*... It's atrocious
You're using Firefox without unlock origin?
You need a new video card.
I need a new graphics card to read about the new graphics card I need 👍
Are you not using an ad blocker?
It's a funny article I'd like to share to my friends but there's no way I'm going to send someone into that mess
What mess? All I see is s clean ad free page.
Ok I'm sure it's fine on desktop but I'm using Firefox on Mobile and it looks like this
There's like three ads at a time and the ad at the bottom literally puts blue bars around the edges of the article. I'm just blown away by how shitty and intrusive it is.
You can use add-ons in Firefox for Android. Not sure what version you're running (I'm on 125.2.0) and I can use many extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin/ should directly let you add or remove the extension.
Thank you, didn't know this and it works great
Try AdGuard. It's an ad blocker for Android (using a local VPN sinkhole). Article is ad-free for me.
Wow thats 600 dollars per extra tab not worth it