What’s up with Firefox?

Re:What’s up with Firefox? by vacri on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:43PM (#13488804)

If I open 5 to 10 tabs with various twitter profiles loaded in them, and I won't notice much because of the icepick that I'll very shortly embed in through my ear.

However, I routinely run with tens of tabs open - usually 40-50 - and love the 'tab groups' extension so I can semantically group them (I have more tabs overall, but they're not all actively loaded). It can get a little slow with 50 active tabs, yes, but what doesn't? Modern webpages suck CPU and RAM dry.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by mistermann on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:08AM (#13489851)

Hmmm, this sounds like an interesting extension. Does it ACTUALLY unload them (and release the memory)? Well, even if it quit executing javascript, I'd be sold.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by vacri on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:04PM (#13495237)

Ah, I've misled. I mean that I have a lot of tabs in groups, and FF doesn't load them when you start it up, just when you visit them. So while I have a 'map' of perhaps a couple of hundred tabs in those tab groups, only the ones I've visited in that session are loaded.

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