Running 3 browser windows, 20 tabs, pc struggling

Cru54d3r

Cru54d3r

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I keep a load of browser windows open as I trade some crypto here and there, alongside some other general browser tabs for email, whatsapp, amazon etc

Have tried various different browsers (chrome, brave, firefox) but all seem to hog loads of cpu and memory. Currently on latest firefox and those 20 tabs are using 22-26% CPU and 11,000MB memory. Having some issues where responsiveness on tabs is suffering and theres lag opening links etc

I appreciate that all those tabs are likely to cause some demand, I guess I'm just wondering what people would suggest as to making it all run faster.

Currently got a 5600x, MSI B550I mobo, 32gb 3200 DDR4 mem, 1 nvme for windows, 3080ti gpu (plus some other components). Any thoughts on what I should change, or would nothing much improve it? Eg could move to a 5800x3d, or get more and faster memory?

Only other thought would be to get a second pc box and split the usage across the two machines

Thanks!
 
alec said:
I find it hard to believe your usage scenario is enough to make it significantly slow down. Any other performance anomalies?

I have a habit of not closing tabs, have hundreds open. It makes absolutely no difference in performance in Firefox for me. But thats because it is very good at putting inactive tabs to sleep.
In your case these are all active pages I guess.

Tried adblocks? uBlock origin makes a huge difference, reducing amount of JS crap running on every page.

CPU and memory upgrades can only help a tiny bit. While browser performance will like any improvement in CPU clock and memory latency, there is only so much you can improve on that platform. Better off PBO, CO optimising your cpu and maybe tighten timings on existing memory.
Cache of 5800X3D will make no difference.

Also, could it be network related? Something eating all network bandwidth making other tabs slow down?
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Running ublock yes, majority of tabs are constantly refreshing with new price action - not sure if that makes much of a difference, i guess the page isnt just loaded and then static
Will try playing around with PBO
Wont be network related, running Cat7 cables in the house to my wifi6 router, im the only one using the internet

Thanks
 
mostly crypto tabs, as mentioned in original post, sites like this: https://www.binance.com/en/trade/BTC_USDT?theme=dark&type=spot

appreciate all the help so far, have isolated the worse offender to this to be tweetdeck, and it would appear im not the only one with that issue, so perhaps its more of a tweetdeck issue than general tab number issue.

I'm going to guess anyone running lots of binance type tabs, regardless of browser, might also have high cpu and ram usage?
 
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