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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask theBuddha, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you are most likely either new here or completely retarded, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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I finally broke down and installed an awesome browser extension, though I'm technically testing two different extensions in two different browsers, 'cause I want to see what's best for my needs.

I have, in just this browser, 99 open tabs. That's a whole lot of RAM being used for tabs I just keep open to have them handy.

So, I installed an extension that puts unused tabs to sleep. They load when I click on them, but are otherwise not resident in RAM. I can pick tabs to never get sent to sleep, like this one and a forum or two that I frequent.

I also installed another extension, one that doesn't let YouTube videos autoplay. I have a ton of YouTube tabs and they autoplay when they're opened, even if you just flipped through it. So, I found a working extension to stop YouTube videos from always playing.

My RAM use (and this computer has 64 GB of RAM, which you'd think was enough) dropped by 2/3rds.

I normally am of the opinion that 'unused RAM is wasted RAM', but I don't want to waste RAM on tabs I might open once every few months.

Anyhow, this freed up RAM for more useful things. I was getting sluggish behavior on a system with 64 GB of RAM!

I have another desktop that has 96 GB of RAM, but that one doesn't care how many tabs I have open.

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I don't have that many tabs open. Maybe 8, and my son always comments that I'm using up all the RAM when he notices

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Unused RAM is wasted RAM, is my general response. You have the RAM to use. The more RAM being used, the more optimal your system is, at a basic level. Obviously RAM management can be important and you want to use your RAM for various tasks, but there's nothing wrong with using your RAM.

Well, unless you have it constantly pegged at 100%. You need some free RAM to swap stuff in and out as you use various applications.

I have like 170 open tabs across two browser instances - one Chrome and the other Chromium. That was mostly wasting RAM, so I changed it up to the current configuration. I seldom open all those tabs, they're just there 'cause it'd be unwieldy to try to store them all as bookmarks.

Speaking of computers, did you fix your laptop?

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I have a keyboard plugged into it, that's how much I've fixed it