I've been running with swap off since my first SSD in 2015 or 2016. 16 GB RAM, then 32. No problems at all.
If I see RAM close to 30 GB I restart my browser and go back to 20 GB or less. Not every month.
If I see RAM close to 30 GB I restart my browser and go back to 20 GB or less. Not every month.
Since you state you're running a browser, I assume you mean for personal use. Unfortunately, when you run a service open to the public, you can find all kinds of odd traffic even for normal low-memory services. Sometimes you'll get hit with an aggressive bot looking for an exploit, and a lot of those bots don't care if they get blocked, because they are built to absolutely crush a system with exploits or login attempts where they are only blocked by the system crashing.
I'd say that most bots are this aggressive, because the old school "script kiddies", or now it's just AI-enabled aggressors, just run code without understanding things. It's easier than ever to run an attack against a range of IP addresses looking for vulnerabilities, that can be chained into a LLM to generate code that can be run easily.
Anyway, I'd also enable swap on public facing servers.
It's only when you're consistently at the limit of how much RAM you have available that the differences start to matter. If you want to run a ~30GB +- 10% workload on a system with 32GB of RAM, then you'll get to find out how stable it is with VS without swap.