A Little More Web Kipple
It looks like ChatGPT’s new browser is identifying itself as a bog standard Chrome instance. That should make it both hard to block and hard to track.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"Another aide-mémoire; open Chrome tabs can, on MacOS, be counted via the following incantation. This particular incantation will pull the tab count from all open windows – minimised or otherwise – without the need to activate Chrome in any way.
osascript -e{'set text item delimiters to linefeed','tell app"google chrome"to url of tabs of windows as text'} | wc -lWhich, when run on my currently open set of tabs, comes back with a number slightly higher than 4,000.
Continue reading “Counting Chrome Tabs on MacOS (Or, I have an open tabs problem!)”Just over 17GB of memory? For a web browser?
And there were a lot more memory hogging processes after these.