Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by polshaw on Thursday August 11, 2011 @01:42PM
(#2873910)
I am a tab hoarder also but personally i'm quite impressed at the speed and responsiveness of FF when restarting with 100-or-so tabs.
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by hollerith on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:03PM
(#2873999)
Yeah, I know, I should take my question to Stack Overflow, but does anyone know how to configure FF to not try to reopen tabs after a crash? (Takes a long time on my old machine.)
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by derobert on Thursday August 11, 2011 @04:15PM
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Well, Superuser, not Stack Overflow.
Go to about:config and set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_from_c...
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by hollerith on Friday August 12, 2011 @01:20AM
(#2876098)
That does what I want. Thanks.
In about:config, change browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash.
A while back I remember using an extension that would restore all of your previous tabs on start up, but not actually load them until you clicked on them. It fixed the situation you describe, but sadly it looks like it no longer works with the current version of Firefox.
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by arantius on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:41PM
(#2879161)
This is default behavior as of Firefox 4. When you launch a new browser, the (default) home page has a "restore last session" button.
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
by romey on Thursday August 11, 2011 @05:34PM
(#2874920)
you could also try using the session manager add-on. I find it pretty handy for when FF crashes with 20+ tabs open in the HN tree, another 10 or so in whatever google search tree I have open, and some other miscellaneous tabs.
One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated again trying to open all these tabs AT ONCE. Poor thing.