Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by toomanybeersies on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:57PM (#12439859)

Firefox has gotten much more stable over recent years in regards to having excessive amounts of tabs open. I can have over 300 tabs open and it's stable (I was using Waterfox when doing this in Windows though).

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by brokenmachine on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:27AM (#12440976)

I have over 300 saved tabs in Firefox on my desktop, and it is stable, but I notice it runs quite a bit slower than when I only have a few open. I really need to start closing some tabs here and there...

It only loads the actual tab when you activate it though, so I don't think all the tabs are being stored in memory, just the ones you activate during a session. I probably actually load about 30 or so during a session, with many more being opened, looked at then closed.

Tab Mix Plus FTW!

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by znpy on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:35AM (#12442143)

What has Waterfox so special? I skimmed it's homepage but it only says "we're fast!", doesn't explain how and why though.

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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by toomanybeersies on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:47PM (#12448102)

At the time I was using it (about a year ago) it was essentially a 64 bit build of Firefox.

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