While I agree that I would rather my browser use more RAM than constantly suspend pages, I disagree with your notion that
>A lot of the improvement in the reliability of consumer grade SSDs is due to OS improvements in how they manage their write operations to the hard drive.
We're talking on the scale of writing 500gb to your SSD every single day for 10 years in order to reach their endurance limit (on average). Writing a few more gb at worst from your browser is hardly going to affect that. It's even doubtful that OS improvements change it much, as Windows 7, which a lot of people are still on, doesn't come SSD optimized.
>A lot of the improvement in the reliability of consumer grade SSDs is due to OS improvements in how they manage their write operations to the hard drive.
We're talking on the scale of writing 500gb to your SSD every single day for 10 years in order to reach their endurance limit (on average). Writing a few more gb at worst from your browser is hardly going to affect that. It's even doubtful that OS improvements change it much, as Windows 7, which a lot of people are still on, doesn't come SSD optimized.