As far as I aware Safari dont "unload" tabs after a period of time for inactivity. ( At least that has been the case both on my home and work machine ) It was an option as part of Dev Tools but was taken out. They haven't been doing unloading from Safari 8 to 17. Using Tab Overview, Unplugging Power Adopter, along with some other functions will trigger reload of all Tabs. Which causes crazy paging, my current Kernel_Task has written 60TB of Data over 6 months. That is 10TB per month.
The only way you have true inactive Tabs is if you restart Safari. On recent Chrome and for Firefox they have been doing it since Project MemShrink and at least 10 years. So for those who close their browser windows every now and then or shut down their computer at the end of the day they may be fine. ( Still possible for force reloading of Tabs on Safari though )
The only way you have true inactive Tabs is if you restart Safari. On recent Chrome and for Firefox they have been doing it since Project MemShrink and at least 10 years. So for those who close their browser windows every now and then or shut down their computer at the end of the day they may be fine. ( Still possible for force reloading of Tabs on Safari though )