5 Ways to Fix a Slow MacBook Air With Too Many Tabs

Close tabs you don’t need Each open tab uses 50–100MB of RAM. With 8GB total, 30+ tabs eat 3GB, leaving almost nothing for the operating system and Safari to run smoothly.

Use a session manager like OneTab If you refuse to close tabs, save them as a list with OneTab. This frees memory without losing your open pages.

Switch to Chrome with a tab suspender Chrome is a memory hog, but it suspends inactive tabs aggressively. Pair it with an extension like The Great Suspender to keep memory usage low.

Limit open tabs to under 20 Safari’s “Show tab bar” setting won’t help on its own. The real fix is keeping your tab count below 20 to avoid swapping to the slower SSD.

Upgrade to 16GB RAM on your next laptop If you regularly hit this wall, get a MacBook Air with at least 16GB RAM. For now, close the tabs.