Safari 15 on iPad suffers similarly, but it’s the Mac version I’ll concentrate on here. Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month, praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped: the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac. Here's what to do.The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’ Friday, 1 October 2021 Ask any tech question at: or on Twitter MORE: Ken Colburn is founder and CEO of Data Doctors Computer Services. Unnecessary add-onsĪdd-ons also contribute to memory usage, so avoid installing them if you don’t really need them and disable or get rid of the ones you may have already installed that you don’t use. ![]() If there’s no possibility for you to change your tabbing behavior, then adding more RAM or installing add-ons may be a better solution to allow for lots of tabs.Ĭhrome users can try The Great Suspender, which will automatically suspend unused tabs to free up memory.īoth Firefox and Opera users can try Tab Suspender to accomplish the same thing. Internet Explorer provides the information as a pop-up that you have to open on each page by hitting Control-Shift-U (hitting it again will close the pop-up).įirefox users can install an add-on called Tab Memory Usage, which will display the memory usage of each page in the upper-right section of the browser window.īy identifying the memory hogs in your regular rotation, you’ll know which ones to close first if things start to slow down. If you click on the "memory" heading, it will re-sort your open tabs in order of the largest memory usage. In Chrome, hitting Shift-Esc will open Google’s Task Manager, which lists all of your open tabs along with various details. Sniffing out memory hogsĭifferent Web resources will use different amounts of memory, so you if you want to see how much memory a specific site is taking up, most browsers offer a way to do that. ![]() As convenient as it may be to have a tab open all day with Facebook running in the background, if you can do without it, you can save memory.īookmarking your commonly used sites for easy access and remembering that you can quickly reopen recently closed tabs in most browsers by hitting Control-Shift-T should help you feel better about closing idle tabs. If you can change the way you manage open tabs, you won’t have to consider changing browsers. ![]() If I had to make a general recommendation, Firefox for Windows users and Safari for Mac users seem to have the lowest memory usage based on a compilation of various tests. There are many variables involved in determining actual memory usage, so the various testing sites that proclaim one browser over another may not be applicable to you unless you use your browser the exact same way they tested them. If you spend time gathering information from multiple sources while researching anything online, this feature has been a game changer.īeing able to open additional tabs eliminated the need to hit the "back" and "forward" buttons in order to jump from one page to another, but the downside to this convenience is the memory usage.Įvery tab you open consumes working memory (aka RAM), which can eventually lead to significant performance issues, so keeping the number of open tabs to a minimum is always in your best interest. Question: Which browser is best to use if I tend to open a lot of tabs?Īnswer: Tabbed browsing changed the way we used the Internet and has become a blessing and a curse.
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