\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n
\nToday I was researching gdp per capita by Canadian province. From the search results, I clicked one entry, expecting some text and maybe a bar graph. What happened immediately was the CPU kicking into high gear – indicated by the sudden hum of the fan. A few seconds later the page loaded, revealing the content more or less as I’d expected: a line graph, some text, then a bar graph, and more text. Yet, the fan accelerated to a high-pitched whine.<\/p>\n
My source told me the page was safe – I even believe it is. Next, I checked the page’s memory consumption – would you believe 2.6 GB? I hardly could believe it, except that the laptop was struggling to display it.<\/p>\n
\nI closed the tab. Not immediately, but maybe a minute or two later, the laptop settled down again, the fan no longer audible. The question remains: why would such an ordinary-looking page consume so much memory? (That’s for one, or several, further posts.)<\/p>\n
\nJust by way of reference, a YouTube video actively playing might occupy around 450MB. A web page might typically consume 60-300MB.<\/p>\n
\nHow does one check how much memory a tab is using? In Edge, Shift+Esc seems to show a listing of some of the tabs open in Edge with their memory consumption. However, it doesn’t necessarily show them all, in my experience.<\/p>\n
\nIn the Norton Private Browser, and in Brave, one can simply mouse over a given tab, and its memory use is shown.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a big topic, of which this post is a beginning.<\/p>\n
\nSource:<\/p>\n
learn.microsoft.com: Monitor memory use in realtime (Microsoft Edge Browser Task Manager)<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about browsing the Internet: the tutor mentions checking memory usage by tab. The following is according to my understanding. Today I was researching gdp per capita by Canadian province. From the search results, I clicked one entry, expecting some …<\/p>\n