this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
273 points (96.0% liked)

Technology

69600 readers
3322 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
273
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 (danfabulich.medium.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

One browser tab holding a few YouTube visits consumes about 350 MO of memory. I think we have added enough functionality to the browser