Why do browsers sometimes drain a lot of RAM until rebooted?
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Almost all browsers have a feature where they optimise the user experience by in efficient use if ram. Download as much of everything and keep it ready for the user so they don’t have to wait. Sometimes they aren’t always sure what to not keep and it stacks up. With them releasing memory if other program wants it can lead to useless things it thinks are useful hanging around.
But here is a thing that modern programmers do: if you got resources free that you can use: why not use them? This means they don’t need optimise their code to be efficient, which is difficult and pointless when you have lots if resources to use. Just download all the libraries! You got 32 gigs of ram to waste, no one cares if 2gigs of it are libraries that are used for one single function that us equivalent of few lines if code! You got deadlines to meet!
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