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Ask HN: Gmail Taking 500+MB RAM on macOS with Brave

2 pointsby shivc11 months ago
So, I&#x27;m using brave on an m3 mac and having 2 big issues: 1. Brave does not properly use memory saver - I have it set on aggressive and even then tabs like gmail just remain active even if I don&#x27;t use them in days<p>2. Especially Gmail tab takes upwards of 500MB - in comparison if I run machine learning models on a moderate sized data set Python ends up taking 1-1.5GB - What is so special that Gmail is doing that it requires so much resources lol

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orionblastar11 months ago
I use Thunderbird to read my GMail accounts. The web browsers take up too much RAM, but I think (I am not 100% certain) that reading IMAP GMAIL in Thunderbird takes up less RAM.
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dotcoma11 months ago
What about the space the iOS app needs? 2.4 GB on my iPhone vs 54 MB for Tuta…
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