Ask HN: Gmail Taking 500+MB RAM on macOS with Brave
So, I'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't use them in days
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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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.
was thinking of trying thunderbird - have you tried apple mail app or superhuman as well by any chance?
I don't have a Mac, what is Superhuman?
an email client that looks nice - apparently quite popular in youtuber land too lol
It cost me too much money to try, I am disabled and on a fixed income. I cannot tell how it would work, but it looks nice.
What about the space the iOS app needs? 2.4 GB on my iPhone vs 54 MB for Tuta…
that's a whole different story too - storage is still manageable but taking up huge chunks of RAM means the daily usage can get affected easily.