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		burfog on March 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory... This would, in some way, let me regain control. Most likely it will have killed the X11 server and dumped me to a text console login prompt. If not that, maybe a browser will be killed. The end result is roughly as bad as just rebooting, so I might as well just reboot.

minitech on March 14, 2018 [–]

It typically kills the browser. Sure, it gets you the same result as rebooting if you only have a browser open, but it’s much faster =)

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