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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by tomp on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:09PM (#12437497)
Nevertheless, I prefer Chrome's approach. I can just open the process explorer and kill a few of the most memory hungry tabs/tab groups; with Firefox, there's no other solution than killing the whole browser.

Can't wait for this fix!

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by NoGravitas on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:21PM (#12437594)
I believe in current Firefox you could kill the memory-hungry tabs, then go to about:memory and force a GC. Or restart and let your tabs stay open but not loaded until you use them. Not that either of these is super-convenient.
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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by rwmj on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:01PM (#12438401)
In Firefox 47 (or 48?) you can now do: about:performance which displays/kills the CPU hungry tabs directly.
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