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.
          • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            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.

            • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 hours ago

              That’s like an order of magnitude more than me. There’s gotta be something else going on with my system.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim… try to build and run tests with maven and I’m at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I’m out of memory.