I've gone through 3-4 Firefox upgrades in Linux over the last several months and have consistently watched GitHub tab memory balloon out from 1gb to 30gb+ each and every time. At first I thought it may have been a Firefox or distribution bug, but only GitHub blows things up so bad.<p>Why is this so terrible? I don't use other browsers so perhaps a Firefox only bug? Do they check this?<p>Have had a couple friends confirm, but HN community? Thoughts?
On a macbook+firefox: when viewing small repositories Github is around 250-350MB<p>When viewing a large PR (+200 files, 2k additions/deletions) Github is around 780MB
I missed the old plain GitHub UI. circle 2011-2012 when I first learn git. GitHub struck me a the best developer-friendly UI out there. Nowadays it seems bloated with too many (unwanted, for me) features.