LinkedIn Uses 2.4 GB of RAM Across Two Tabs. We...

LinkedIn is using 2.4 GB of RAM across two tabs. Two tabs. Not twenty. Two. A Hacker News thread over the weekend hit 600+ points as developers shared their horror stories. One person saw a single LinkedIn tab at 3.2 GB while every other tab sat under 200 MB. One watched its memory climb to 42 GB, traced to a third-party bot prevention service merrily running in the background. And you know what? Nobody was surprised. That's the problem. We Have Normalized This The median web page now ships 780