With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced options may no longer handle intense office and gaming tasks.
Mostly Firefox with an admittedly ridiculous number of tabs.
Those are load bearing tabs…
Get yourself the ‘auto discard tabs’ extension.
Tbf Firefox seems to have started using much more memory a year or so ago: I could easily hit over 200 tabs, now fifty are a problem. Though it could just be me having switched to the developer edition.
I think my last count hit north of 500 tabs…
I… I may have a bit of a problem…
That’s like an order of magnitude more than me. There’s gotta be something else going on with my system.