Jeff Fortin T.<p>One of my moonshot performance feature requests in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebKitGTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebKitGTK</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOMEWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNOMEWeb</span></a>: the ability to (semi-)automatically unload tabs from RAM when you have too many of them (especially idle ones)… <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291369" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i</span><span class="invisible">d=291369</span></a></p><p>Even with 24 GB of RAM it has been a lifesaver for me in Firefox on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>; being able to tell the browser to aggressively auto-unload idle tabs from websites like Reddit and YouTube, while keeping "safe" (ex: work intranet, chat system) tabs allowlisted, is great for saving resources.</p>