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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by luckydude on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:39PM (#12438246)
I'm at 2.9G virtual 1.277g resident with about 130 tabs open (yeah, I'm a goofball but I like my tabs). It's pretty responsive on a thinkpad x220 i5-2540M @ 2.6ghz, 8G of ram and an SSD.
Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:54PM (#12438341)
Not even criticizing, but how do you manage 130 tabs? How do you find tabs you're looking for? You must have some kind of system!
Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by espadrine on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:32PM (#12438664)
A few people use Tree-Style Tabs, which organize them as a tree structure, similar to directories. It encourages using tabs instead of bookmarks, which have a terrible UX (in all browsers, not picking on Firefox here).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by Alexqw85 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:06PM (#12438919)
Tree Style Tabs is the primary reason why I stick with Firefox. Without it, I wouldn't even know where to begin managing the relevant sites/info I encounter when reading up on diverging lines-of-thought.

For me, it is /the/ absolute killer feature for browsers.

---Alex

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by andrepd on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:48PM (#12438777)
I do that and I regularly hit 1000 tabs. Once a week I close and reopen or it gets too slow.
Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by andrepd on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:48PM (#12438775)
I do that and I hit 1000 tabs. Once a week I close and reopen or it gets too slow.
Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by krzyk on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:19PM (#12438539)
Not sure how he does it, but I don't manage those. I just don't close tabs (I usually forget to do it :), so after week or two I end up with 200-300 tabs (my record is 900).

I tried to use chrome once and it ate all my ram, and they were saying it uses less ram then firefox back then.

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by chalion on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:41PM (#12439142)
You can use the Awesome Bar to search open tabs: just prefix your query with '%'.

More search tips can be found here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by pirocks on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:40PM (#12439133)
Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by bzbarsky on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:25AM (#12440964)
Firefox lets you search your open tabs (urls/titles/etc). The simplest way to find the tab you're looking for is to do just that: search.