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brave browser many tabs open laptop screen.
This browser extension freed up gigabytes of RAM by doing one simple thing I should have done years ago

Browser tabs tend to add up over time, but instead of closing them, you can stop the memory usage right from the source.

Mozilla Firefox running on a Mac
Firefox is free, open-source, and private — why did it lose to Chrome?

The answer has less to do with Firefox and more to do with where Chrome was already installed.

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firefox browser with tabs open.
These two browser engines aren't controlled by Google or Apple — and that matters more than you think

Most "alternative" browsers still run Google's rendering engine. The actual competition is somewhere most people never look.

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A Chrome Extension for SponsorBlock being used in Chrome
These Chrome extensions fix things that should have been built in years ago

I stopped fighting my browser's memory usage the moment I found these extensions, now I will never go back.

A laptop with Zen Browser open
This Firefox alternative is the browser switch I didn’t expect to keep

Firefox has great bones, but this browser gives it the UX it always deserved.

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KiwiSDR tuned to 10MHz time station and volmet meteo
The internet's creepiest radio mystery is live on shortwave, and you can hear it for yourself

I went looking for radio broadcasts with online radios and stumbled upon some truly weird stuff with interesting history.

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Chrome browser opened on a MacBook
Chrome’s new memory-saving feature made my laptop worse

Chrome’s Memory Saver sounded smart — until it started slowing me down.

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