Once in here, search ' caching' and enable 'Turn off caching of streaming media to disk while on battery power' and 'Turn off caching of streaming media to disk', and disable 'Back-forward cache'. The last optimisation step to take is to turn off browser caching.įor Brave / Vivaldi: open a new tab and type chrome://flags. Set maximum number of tabs to check for discarding per automatic discarding request to 500, and the number of allowed simultaneous discarding jobs to 1000. I recommend discarding inactive tabs after 1 minute, when the number of inactive tabs reaches 2. Once you've installed ATD to your browser, click on the extension icon and go into options, and here you can configure how you want ATD to behave. This extension releases the memory of tabs that do not need to be actively taking it, but your scroll position on the page is preserved so that when you click back on the tab it appears as if nothing happened. Once you choose one of these browsers (feel free to try them all), the next step is to download and configure Auto Tab Discard. All of these browsers support Auto Tab Discard (Firefox has it in it's native extension store), with Brave, and Vivaldi both being Chromium browsers which allows them to access the large Chrome Extension Web Store. Alternatively you can also use Chrome, or Microsoft Edge but Edge lacks the cache disabling flags and it requires setting the Edge cache folder to Read Only. Many viable options exist, but in terms of memory efficiency the best options include Brave, Firefox, and Vivaldi. Solution: Switching to one of the many alternative M1 native browsers available, and installing a tab discarding extension such as Auto Tab Discard. Secondly, Safari has no tab discarding/sleeping features which means that the more tabs you open, the more memory used, which leads to excessive SSD swap writing. Safari will often cache any tab you close to 'Safari Web Content (Cached)', which is kept in your memory, and if any other app requires your RAM the cached website data gets written as swap to the SSD. Do note that you're only going to notice improvements if you browse with more than 5 tabs, or if you often close and open new tabs.Ĭurrently, Safari is unfortunately often a major culprit in writing excessive data to the SSD, especially due to it's excessive website data caching.
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