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0 pointsuntog6y ago0 comments

> The remaining memory is probably sitting there in memory allocations of JS or so

I'm not so sure about that. 5 Electron apps takes up far more memory than 5 tabs open in your browser because there are 5 copies of all the other browser resources. I don't know exactly what they are but anecdotal observation of using Slack and similar apps as browser tabs shows much less memory use. It makes sense: the browser rendering engine and JavaScript engine are going to occupy memory themselves.

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nieve6y ago

Yes, as evidence for this web browsers sitting at an empty new tab page are generally still using at least 100-200mb to do nothing. The likelihood that most of that is not the part that's most vital and feature rich is low.

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