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Comment by jawilson2 | Hacker News Reader

I'm finding it slightly ironic[0] that this site takes 162 MB RAM (according to hovering over the tab in chrome), scrolls incredibly slowly, and has hijacked the right-click menu so I can't open links in a new tab.

I definitely agree with the content, though. I'm so glad I don't do webdev.

[0] I think this is actually correct usage of "ironic."

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Maybe I'm being saved by uBlock but I didn't notice any scroll hijacking or right-click interference.

Edit: uBlock is blocking one analytics script and there are no other scripts on the page. Disabling uBlock doesn't seem to affect page behaviour.

Entirely possible, I'm on a work-issued laptop and I can't install extensions, because raw-dogging the internet is safer than letting employees block ads.

I'm guessing you're on Edge if you're in that predicament; in that case you should check if you can set tracker blocking to "strict". It doesn't work completely like an ad blocker (it doesn't hide broken elements for instance) but that may block loads of unwanted content without needing permission to install addons.

Firefox 115, tab takes 9.3MB with adblock disabled and Enhanced Tracking protection also disabled. No problem with scrolling or right-clicking. Or any other kind of problem.

You could run Far Cry 1 on a 1920x1200p screen within 162 MB of RAM…

On mine, it shows about 30 MB, which is less than this HN thread. I don't see the right-click hijacking either. Am I missing something?

Firefox here reports 28MB RAM usage, it's very snappy and context menus work just fine, with or without adblocker enabled.

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