The Thousand-Tab Load Test
Description
A review screenshot shows a two-star rating by "HandCoding, 03/26/2020" with the bold title "If you have > 1,000 tabs, this will lock up your computer." The reviewer says they had about 1,400 tabs open in Safari, tried the app to tame Safari's RAM and CPU usage, and after enabling its extension Safari's RAM exploded like "a cement truck on Mythbusters" until a 16 GB MacBook Pro became unusable: mouse movement barely worked, the clock froze, and macOS reported that system memory was exhausted. The final paragraph says they did not give one star because the app might work for around 100 tabs, but they strongly recommend not using it in its current state for over 1,000 Safari tabs; a t.me/dev_meme watermark appears at the bottom. The technical humor is that a pathological browser-session habit becomes an accidental stress test for memory management, extension performance, and edge-case product claims.
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At 1,400 tabs, the app was not optimizing Safari; Safari was running an unpaid chaos experiment on the app.