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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by PeterisP on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:39PM (#14824253)
For Chrome, the Great Suspender plugin had fixed the resource usage for me, it's kind of like lazy loading + freezing of heavy background tabs, and it enables quick startup even with 100 tabs.

But it should be a core feature of the browser itself IMHO.

Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by pfranz on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:06PM (#14824401)
I used the Great Suspender for a few months and thought it was great. Unfortunately, at some point tabs I came back to were 404ed =/ It's also why I switched away from bookmarks to Evernote (and later Bear) so I could capture the page in addition to the address for reference.

I guess I should use it in tandem with that plugin that replaces 404 pages with archive.org links...

Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by surement on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:58PM (#14824355)
A bigger problem with Chrome is that it doesn't support multiple rows of tabs. The usual reasoning is "close some tabs!" For someone who uses a monitor in portrait mode, this is painfully ridiculous.
Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by sleepychu on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:26PM (#14824510)
Conform to widescreen!

I'm sympathetic, I use my two secondary 1080ps in portrait. I think I used to use a vim plugin on Chrome that had a sublime-ctrl+p-like feature to just search through my open tabs for the one I wanted.

Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by mistermann on Saturday July 22, 2017 @09:19AM (#14827044)
I'd kill for something that could search across Firefox and Chrome tabs - sometimes I know I have something open, but not sure which browser app. I did have an addin like this for FF, but with the performance issues FF already has, it wasn't realistic to run it.
Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by surement on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:16PM (#14824900)
Vimium! I use it too, very useful. The command is shift+t to search through open tabs.
Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by nol13 on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:09PM (#14825178)
na the usual reasoning is "use vertical tab bar and tab groups and dont put your monitor n portrait mode"