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Ada Rose Cannon Apr 27, 2018

But in all seriousness:
• It was not too long ago when running a browser on under 1GB of RAM was normal.
• Consumer devices are being produced today have less that 1GB of RAM and mobile chips.
• Browser maintainers are doing great work to ensure they work on these devices.

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Ada Rose Cannon Apr 27, 2018

If I can't get an instant messaging website, a social media website, a web based email client and a text doc running in under 4GB of remaining RAM on a 2016 ultra-book something has gone terribly wrong.

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neville park

@ada My daily driver is only a few years old: 2 GB of RAM, eMMC memory—basically a lower-end tablet in a laptop form factor. I can get RAM use down to 400-500 MB before opening a browser.

I can barely use sites like Facebook and Google Drive; if I do, I can't have anything else open at the same time. I can't even have a graphical text editor open, I use a console-based one.

Kill…meeee…