{"by":"clumsysmurf","id":48135962,"kids":[48144028],"parent":48134102,"text":"It is a naive and suboptimal implementation, they even describe it in the link you posted<p>&quot;We have now approached the problem again by refining our low-memory detection and tab selection algorithm and narrowing the action to the case where we are sure we’re providing a user benefit: if the browser is about to crash.&quot;<p>I would prefer FF to be more proactive in unloading tabs way before &quot;its about to crash&quot; to keep system level memory pressure lower. Firefox is the main memory hog on my M1 mac.<p>Chrome can do this, there is no reason we should be stuck with &quot;manual tab unload&quot; and &quot;unload when the browser is about to crash&quot;.<p>I am using an extension, but that just reinforces the argument: they could be doing much more here.","time":1778768999,"type":"comment"}