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I use Safari because it's best by a mile on macOS for power consumption, but if you ever use a memory hungry site like Facebook for more than a few minutes it throws up a memory usage warning and everything becomes extremely slow and you get astronomical scroll jank. I'm guessing that's because it throws a hard cap on tab memory usage and if you go over that it thrashes wildly. So it respects your system, but in doing so is harder on the user for some of the most commonly used websites and might be whacking your drive.


You got about 10 minutes to look at Reddit with the new design


Safari + Old Reddit redirection is the way to go here.

Now if only there was a way to calm Twitter down...


Check out https://nitter.net/

I redirect all twitter links to nitter. For me nitter loads much faster.


If you're logged into reddit, there's an option to just use the old layout which doesn't need an extension to redirect you.


It doesn't work for all Reddit links, sadly - and it doesn't work if you're in a private tab.

I built an extension to do it: https://secretkeys.io/oldr/


That setting seems to disable itself every 4-8 weeks.


Reminds me I wanted to build a textonly proxy (like https://lite.cnn.com/en and similar) for all the web...


This is the reason i was used in past two Facebook sites - mbasic. and m.

But Facebook surprises me with removing Messaging functionality from mobile sites. So i must use desktop site. Within 5 minutes fans starts howling...


Tip: Messenger.com is a stand alone facebook messenger webapp.

No need to load all of facebook.com


I have a MBP 16" and from testing/experimenting...I get about ~5% less battery life when using Brave, than when using Safari.

So the power consumption thing is quite the myth as well.


Yep this is really weird and annoying. I get it even streaming video in full screen.




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