I have a Facebook Group (selected members post music) which over the last decade grew very big. I still want to go through very old entries from time to time, however, I noticed that I cannot go farther back than 2014 anymore.
The browser tabs in Chrome, Firefox and Edge all die with some kind of out-of-memory exception around that time. My machine is not to blame: 64bit, 64GB of RAM (and plenty of it free). I noticed that the corresponding processes aren’t even that big for a 64bit machine (around 3GB) before dying off.
I’ve found various issue tracker entries like this one, so this seems to be a real problem for most browsers.
I can’t use Facebook’s graph API either, as it has two major downsides:
- If users have disabled it in their privacy settings, the graph API doesn’t return their posts
- Furthermore, it looks like the corresponding permission “reading group posts” requires a Facebook app that has gone through a business review and I don’t have a business
So my question is: is there a browser somewhere I can use which has unlimited tab memory size? Is there a different way I can use to show me very old entries (without the search function, I’m trying to browse old music, if I’d remember the name for the search, I wouldn’t need to find the post anymore…)
