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Re:The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactiv... by mistermann on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:56PM (#11678706)
> Firefox is smart about only loading tabs on demand.

This is the second time I've read this today....for me, when FF restarts, the tabs appear to be empty (they are blank, and reload when activated), but all of the memory is consumed almost as if it is somehow pre-allocated even though the page hasn't loaded. Do you not see this behavior?

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Re:The Great Suspender: Free up memory by suspending inactiv... by hga on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:09PM (#11679308)
Errr, I'm sorry, I have such a big memory budget on my machines that I haven't paid that close attention, I care a lot more about it hitting much my more constrained DSL Internet connection.
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