• iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Ooof. After having a pinephone, I know what 2 or 3GB of RAM can handle these days. Not much, really. Specially the moment you open the browser. I’m going to pass from any project that doesn’t attempt to at least get close to this decade’s standards.

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      2 days ago

      Specially the moment you open the browser

      I’d be curious, did you profile if it’s for all pages or only some? I’d expect e.g. Facebook or Instagram to be more demanding than Lemmy or ProtonMail but to be honest I have no idea.

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        2 days ago

        Prefetching, prediction, media, infinite loading (gradually) or aggressive tracking can increase the usage.
        I’ve had a single jira page use 6GB on Firefox.

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        I had a Windows Phone with 2GB of memory before, even (old) Reddit was horrendous, let alone Proton Mail with all its JavaScript and images.

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      My current Android phone has 4GB and it’s really smooth. I’ve got 90 Firefox tabs open and several apps. I’d love to see that level of optimization in a startup, but more RAM will just mask the bad optimization.