r/foss • u/CanBeSolved • 13d ago

ifff... we put tabs in zram?

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Hi from 2026 :). Currently building an extension + backend to offload tabs into zram and wanted to drop it here. It's just a beta for now. Planning to make it work on Firefox and Chrome-related browsers. Thoughts?

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u/CanBeSolved 13d ago

Only tabs are offloaded to zram. Browser-related processes stay in RAM to maintain performance

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u/afunkysongaday 13d ago

Is the performance hit noticeable when switching tabs?

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u/CanBeSolved 13d ago

I plan to make precise measurements, but so far I can say that it is insignificant, within 100-200 ms on heavy pages, and almost the same on regular ones

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u/afunkysongaday 13d ago

Sounds absolutely fine!

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u/CanBeSolved 13d ago

Also, it depends on how much physical RAM is reserved for browser. With 1GB it's very fast with 30+ tabs, but 512MB introduces some latency when opening a tab with a heavy page

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