🤍 Appeal to the Browser Goddesses 🤍
Can we please make it a thing where 32GB of RAM isn’t an insufficient amount for day to day web browser usage? Getting an OOM core dump for that reason is inexcusable.
- Should the Zoom browser app really need 2GB on a single tab when it’s already downscaling a 1080p feed to 320p on an enterprise account?
- Should Amazon’s website really need 1GB per tab just to view the cart or a ~800Mb for a single simple product page?
- Please remind me how an MKdocs fully static page with a single 400k image and no datatables or fancy JS somehow require 242Mb?
- Or perhaps shed some light on the requirement where Google’s main page with a single search form somehow needs ~500Mb
There are no “good reasons” for these inefficiencies. We don’t suddenly have better search fields or compressed jpegs now vs a decade ago with 1/10th of the system resources.
#developer #webdev #linux #browsers #chrome #firefox #ensh11n
@winterschon@bsd.cafe Today’s browsers are monsters, designed to serve overloaded and bloated websites. Today’s websites and web-apps are designed to take everything just because it’s there. I miss the good old days of the internet, when it was mainly designed for sharing information in plain text format (that was the time even before annoying gifs showed up). But unfortunately these days will never come back.
that’s why i love the gemini protocol. it doesn’t even support images, just plain text.
Safari has a new feature where you can click on annoying website components and make them disappear. It’s AMAZING.
uBlock Origin has this too 🤔
@doerk @winterschon That’s why the #geminiprotocol is such a nice thing.
@thorstenzoeller@exquisite.social @doerk@nrw.social yes! I was just mentioning that in another response. love gemini, still need to setup a server. 🤩