That said - it’s not magic. 30 tabs in Chrome is a lot if you’re not using a tab suspender extension. But one thing I do notice is that when a Rosetta 2 app is running, the entire machine seems to take a hit. I would check the architecture of your apps and see if you have any x86 apps running.
Not sure if Chrome is still this way, but it would allow background tabs to still run things like JS even after hours of not being focused.
Did you even read my comment?
I totally missed that fork of TGS. Glad I saw this comment, as I hated getting rid of TGS.
There cannot be a good reason to do this, I start to get anxious at 20-30
Browsers should default to closing unused tabs (after 30 days?) and I’m glad that’s possible now. If you haven’t seen a tab in a month chances are you never will.
Yes, tabs as a todo list work. With a tab suspender extension.
Hey, what if I finally get to whatever interesting thing that tab had after 30 years of ignoring it?!
But yeah, I just "close other tabs" every few weeks because it's 99% guaranteed I won't need them.
I do try to avoid Rosetta quite a bit though (right now I have no Intel processes in Activity Monitor).
Also check Messages.app hasn't run away with the CPU. Sometimes it seems to do that :(