One reason for browsers getting sluggish is having too many extensions open, which just consumes extra RAM. Sometimes, too, they can interfere with each other. Even though my computer has 32GB of RAM, using a lot more than is needed, certainly increases the browser start up time a lot.

I used to have just over 60 tabs open across my two browsers, and with reducing that now to just over 50 (eradicating the multiple GMail ones, and the RSS one) and also being able to turn off many of the browser extensions, I’ve saved a good many Gigabytes of RAM, and both my browsers are lot more responsive.

The beauty with Extensity is that you can have most extensions disabled, as it is very quick to just toggle an extension on when needed, and quickly toggle it off again. The only extensions I keep active are really those doing script blocking, dark mode, spell checking, tab snoozing, and those of a similar nature.

See https://github.com/sergiokas/Extensity

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