There can be several reasons, but in my case, I have my work and research organized into several "buckets" each, with the tabs for those buckets together on one cohesive page of tabs, with one page for each area/subject always available for ease of access.
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Because some of us need to delude ourselves that we'll get to them later. Also I've switched from saving to Pocket/Instapaper to saving to Bookmarks to just keeping them in tabs so I'm just waiting for the next thing.
load 100 tabs, take a loot at swap ) and take a loot at writes at the end of the day )
yes I totally agree with you. however I think that tab suspender for safari decreases memory usage by 50%, because when it suspends the tab it just saves screenshot. opened tabs, and closed tabs (safari web content - cached) are 120-250-350MB depending on web you're viewing and in my experience, when you use tab suspender - suspended tabs max out at 80mb each.
moving to EDGE or FIREFOX or CHROME is a better option for sure, but I can't leave without Keychain ) I could not find any other alternative for it - which is implemented well on MacOS and iOS. That's the reason im sticking with safari.
I have around 50-80 tabs open usually. Happens quickly if you are doing research. Let’s say I’m looking for information on a technical topic. Usually I’d open 10-20 links to compare sources.
There is the option of 1Password or its opensource counterpart KeePassXC. Avoids the whole Keychain problem.
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Now on 11.3 since 30/4/21, 13.67GB/day average use up to today. 21.0 TBW, 8.3 months old. Much better than before.
As an aside, on Activity monitor, the Bytes Written value goes down as well as up? A bit like shares I guess. The first time I looked 1 hr back it was 77.97 now it is 77.68. (No TM activity since March.) Strange but true.
MBA 8/256
Now on 11.3 since 30/4/21, 13.67GB/day average use up to today. 21.0 TBW, 8.3 months old. Much better than before.
As an aside, on Activity monitor, the Bytes Written value goes down as well as up? A bit like shares I guess. The first time I looked 1 hr back it was 77.97 now it is 77.68. (No TM activity since March.) Strange but true.
MBA 8/256
It’s possible that the developer has updated the extension since the last time I used it, as I used it fairly early in the M1 days and it might’ve not been fully optimised with Big Sur yet. Glad to hear it’s working better and I agree, if you need to use Safari e.g. keychain then safari with it’s tab suspender extension is the best way.
I'm using Bitwarden with Brave (but it works with other browsers as well). It is free and very good.
can you confirm if the autofill works on macOS Edge, iOS Edhe, and in-app for Mac and iOS..
when I tried it last time, there was that extra one click required to make it work. to suggest a password, to autofill and etc.
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It's a workflow efficiency thing.
If you use web-apps for productivity software, documentation references or need to refer to lots of different pages to research a topic, then it's easier to have everything open and easily to-hand for when you need it. Otherwise you would spend a lot of time closing and re-opening pages. I need at least 30 tabs open for my work, and often have 50-80.
You do need to review and tidy-up at last once a day though to avoid it getting unmanageable.
A big plus of non-Safari browsers is the ability to suspend tabs so that they use minimal memory, but are quickly available. I would even be OK with tabs auto-closing after a defined time, unless marked as "persistent".
Maybe.. I know that my new Macbook had around 300GB written. I guess it was from testing in factory and system install.
My refurbished Mac Mini 8/256 arrived a few days ago, should I be concerned at the data units written or is this normal? It’s not had a huge amount of use by me since it arrived.
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Wow 101 pages. And no one has even speculated in the difference between Gray and silver case or if plugged in with mains at 230/110 59/60hz But every other speculation is present, I’m sure we will reach 2000 pages
but at the end of the day there is nothing that any one here can do. And guess what it does not even matter as even the highest read writes still means that the SSD will last longer than the average ownership period or the useful life of the built in battery.
Thanks. With this being a refurbished Mac I’m not sure if some of that 3.5TB written is from before I owned it. Just thought it seemed high for the limited use I’ve had of it so far.
I considered buying Apple Care but AFAIK it’s not really required here and would only really cover accidental damage, consumer laws in Scotland cover me for 5 years anyway for any other faults. Apple reminded me of this when I looked to purchase the additional cover.
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I have seen that stated before but when I have to do a mass edit of the wiki I am a sysop for and have more than 15 tabs open I can only see the icons so I don't understand how that can help the workflow if you constantly keep them open (my process is - make the changes, close the tab, and go to the next in the list)
Unless one has perfect memory or a way to sort through the tabs I can't see how doing this is efficient.