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Hey Chromium, Dear Firefox. You two realize you're not actually a virtual machine, right?

Could you please stop fighting over who can use the most memory? It's not a contest.

@striker

All of them.

In all seriousness tho, probably around 50 in total.

@fribbledom Browser becoming operating systems running JavaScript (eh, and Wasm!) is one of the worst jokes of IT history, I think. 😉

@fribbledom How many tabs do you have OPEN? XD

@striker

...and I refuse to accept that's part of the problem 😆

@fribbledom the fuck Firefox know what memory usage is. Firefox is not a system administrator.

@fribbledom Actually, I think they think they are virtual machines.

@fribbledom But they are! All those JS code ain't running on nothing

@fribbledom Of course it gobbles up memory for breakfast, it's a JVM

JavaScript Virtual Machine

@fribbledom OpenSCAD next to them with 1.3GiB looks funny.

@fribbledom holy shit

@fribbledom so what features does a VM have that a web browser doesn't?

@fribbledom exactly how many tabs you have open?

@fribbledom
Well, they are virtual machine managers for all the ECMAscript VMs being run by the web pages...

@fribbledom
I suppose you also have many extensions and some of the tabs has a lot of JS

@striker

@fribbledom as soon as JS based web apps became a thing, browsers DID become virtual machines

@fribbledom Those are rookie numbers.

@fribbledom - that shows how bloated the modern web is. 35 GB that's crazy 😯

@fribbledom

Nothing gets my goat like web browser bloat.

@fribbledom Or rather, it is a contest, but they don’t realize it’s scored like golf, not bowling.

@fribbledom for goodness sake, you know better than to post nonsense like this.
If you have RAM, the browser will use it. If you're running out of memory, the browser will free it up. That's how garbage collected memory systems and caches and many other technologies *work*.
If for some reason you want the browser to use less memory, run it on a PC with less memory available. I promise you it still works just fine.

@fribbledom @striker

I thought only my wife has 50+ tabs open 🤣🤣🤣

@danielcassidy

Well, yes, I certainly do kinda know what's going on in the background. That doesn't mean this isn't problematic. Along with the kernel, now I have two systems fighting over that resource, both optimistically caching away until it's too late. If what the browsers do worked fine, I wouldn't see them getting OOM-killed by the kernel all that often.

@fribbledom OK I concede something is definitely badly broken if they're getting oom-killed by the kernel.

@fribbledom The more RAM you have, the more RAM your OS will use

@kazriko @fribbledom Especially since you can‘t read information anymore because everything is covered by cookie banners.

@fribbledom isn’t unused ram wasted ram? At least that’s how macOS handles ram (as far as I know)

@wex

I'm fine with the kernel using all my RAM for caching, but if individual processes start doing it alongside the kernel, it becomes really messy and uncontrollable, very quickly.

@fribbledom that’s a good point! I’m not too advanced in this topic, so thanks for clarifying 😄