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BaalChatzaf
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06 May 2017, 3:32 pm

alex wrote:
Chrome spawns separate instances for every tab you open which is a security feature and also prevents one tab from crashing the whole browser. But because of this it uses significantly more ram.


Yup. That is the trade off. Solution. open only one window at a time.


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06 May 2017, 7:19 pm

I compiled Firefox 52.1.1 ESR from source earlier on. It feels awesome having a browser tailored to my machine. 8)


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