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Re:Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages by bluecalm on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:22PM (#6477148)
>Unresponsiveness due to one tab thrashing

Or even not trashing. When one tab asks for username/login with a pop-up ("Authentication Required" one) and you have it saved in some email opened in another tab you can't switch to email tab until you kill the login one. I call it "god window" (god tab in this case) pattern. Very typical for most old and some new Windows desktop apps.

Chrome handles it perfectly.

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Re:Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages by daleharvey on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:42PM (#6477286)
They are hugely fustrating, we did per tab modal dialogs in Firefox OS, I imagine they will be fixed in desktop shortly.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613785 open bug for it

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Re:Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages by azakai on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:33PM (#6478911)
Ironically, the reverse is true for alert() popups.
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