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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by ssivark on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:04PM (#27097622)
Please elaborate on your workflow, and the tools you use. I know many people will be interested!
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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by superkuh on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:56PM (#27098635)
The most important bits are using a single process Firefox fork (ex: Palemoon, Seamonkey, etc) and disabling javascript by default with NoScript set in temp whitelist only mode. Second is behavior. All the NoScript in the world isn't going to save your browser if you attempt to run applications like Facebook or Twitter in it.

"Suspend Tab" for not loading inactive tabs is also important. I typically run about 50/50 in my active sessions in terms of active vs suspended tabs. "Search Tabs" and "Tab Mix Plus" are also very helpful. "Decentraleyes" also helps (mostly latency and privacy) by providing most not-bleeding-edge JS libs, fonts, etc locally only once.

Generally the first 1/3 of my tabs are long term tab groups I keep going back to for reference. These are almost all suspended most of the time they rarely change over the course of a single year. The second third is medium term tabs from projects I worked on but moved on from. I go through every month or two and bookmark projects I won't continue while closing the tabs. The last third is active tabs and changes day to day and week to week. I generally know the positions and relative groupings of all the tabs in the first 2/3 by heart. http://erewhon.superkuh.com/number-of-tabs-vs-date-2017.png http://erewhon.superkuh.com/whathappenedin2016accordingtotab...

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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by ridiculous_leke on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:11AM (#27102608)
Aren't you compromising your security by not using multi-process firefox?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Process_model

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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by superkuh on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:18AM (#27102962)
Not much. Disabling javascript makes up for a lot. People who run every random bit of code that gets sent to their browser are definitely compromising their security and need the extra layers of defense.
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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by ridiculous_leke on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:02AM (#27105007)
Hmm, makes sense. It also seems like I have not paid enough attention to NoScript which is also available for Firefox Android.
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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by nieve on Sunday May 09, 2021 @09:33PM (#27101742)
I'm not sure a single-process fork is necessary, I'm at 2.2GB with 5273 tabs on Firefox 88.0.1. I run NoScript in default deny mode as well and use uBlock Origin & uMatrix, but I don't use any suspender addons.
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Re:When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure ... by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:08AM (#27118272)
Enlighten me, for I don't understand why using uBlock Origin and uMatrix together with NoScript is necessary? Is this just habit, or has NoScript some features which the u*-stuff combo can't provide?

Featurewise, UI-wise?

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