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Re:Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers by jauntywundrkind on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:19PM (#41228858)
On my 2017 Ultrabook with only 4gb of ram, Firefox stalls repeatedly & has long stretches of being entirely unresponsive after half a dozen tabs, and gets worse from there.

I have some delay where a navigation might be delayed some, but Chrome doesn't ever lose input and generally manages to keep going.

Even on a desktop with 64GB ram, Firefox gets slow over time & needs to be restarted when I have a significant number of tabs open. Tab auto-suspend extensions generally "fix" the problem, but it's been frustrating that whatever the on-page performance is in Firefox, the app itself feels so prone to bouts of unresponsiveness.

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Re:Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers by az09mugen on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:13PM (#41229375)
Please be more precise about what you mean by "significant number of tabs", is it 50, 200, 500, more ? Because on a 16 Gb laptop, I don't have any problem with 50 tabs open with Firefox.
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