1,000 Tabs Lock Your Computer

★★☆☆☆ HandCoding, 03/26/2020 If you have > 1,000 tabs, this will lock up your computer It so happens that I have about 1,400 tabs open in Safari (which I'm not proud of), and so I thought that I'd try this app to see if it might be able to tame some of Safari's RAM and CPU usage. Well, as it turns out, after running this app and activating its extension, Safari's RAM usage exploded like a cement truck on Mythbusters. And within seconds, my MacBook Pro (with the 16 GB RAM) ground to a complete halt—like, I could hardly move the mouse cursor, and the even the clock in the menubar froze. Finally, macOS popup up a dialog saying that all system memory had been exhausted. I haven't given this app 1 star because it seems likely that this app probably/might work if you have, like, 100 open tabs or something. But if perhaps you have over 1,000 open tabs in Safari, I'd strongly recommend not using this app in its current state.

A two-star app review describes a Safari extension that supposedly manages memory with many tabs, but instead causes a MacBook Pro to freeze and exhaust all system memory. The joke is the absurdly relatable escalation from having 1,400 tabs open to blaming the app for the inevitable computer crash. EN: A two-star app review describes a Safari extension that supposedly manages memory with many tabs, but instead causes a MacBook Pro to freeze and exhaust all system memory. The joke is the absurdly relatable escalation from having 1,400 tabs open to blaming the app for the inevitable computer crash.

• @dev_meme / 1285 2020-04-08