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Dietrich Ayala is a developer relationist working for internet freedom at Mozilla, the non-profit makers of Firefox.
[...] I've got a Firefox profile with 1691 tabs.
[...] As you would expect, Firefox handled this profile quite poorly for a long time. I got used to multi-minute startup time, waiting 15-30 seconds for tabs from external apps to show up, and all manner of non-responsive behavio(u)r.
And then, quite recently, everything changed.
The author then describes his testing platform and admittedly simple-minded test scenario: a Macbook, time to load all 1691 tabs in HIS profile, and using Firefox versions 20, 30, 40, and 50 through 56.
The upshot? Startup time dropped from over 7 minutes to under 15 seconds. Memory usage dropped from over 2 GB to under 0.5 GB.
Source: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
(Score: 4, Touché) by jmorris on Saturday July 29 2017, @06:16AM (4 children)
Seriously. A few dozen tabs are easy to get opened up during a project. Yea, that happens. A thousand? Somebody has confused tabs with bookmarks at that point, especially the ones who keep that stuff open for months / years across reboots, major version updates, etc. Pro tip: Bookmarks do not impact performance and load about as fast as a tab which has been sitting waiting to load until you actually view it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @06:41AM (3 children)
Bookmarks in Firefox actually do impact performance, I know, I've had several 1000 of them and had to externalise them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:36AM (2 children)
They likely do, but as far as I can tell, not much.
Checking just now, it seems I have ~23k bookmarks (15ish years of bookmarking and almost never removing them will do that). I use Pale Moon, which is codewise still mostly Firefox. Even with this ridiculous number and dozens of addons on top of that, initial startup takes maybe 5~10 seconds. I also haven't noticed any slowdown in normal operation.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 29 2017, @12:41PM (1 child)
Which one of you has the HDD and which one of you has the SSD? That could play a big role.
If tens of thousands of bookmarks is going to slow anything down, it would be the "awesomebar", right?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:35PM
I'm the AC with ~23k bookmarks. I have HDD, but I found "awesomebar" annoying when they first implemented it so it's turned off. I don't like my inputs mixed.
For bookmark management I use the combination of:
* All-in-One Sidebar - shows addons, bookmarks, history etc. in a sidebar
* 2 Pane Bookmarks - separate panes for links and folder structure
* Sidebar Bookmarks Search Plus - ... I don't remember what it does, but it sure sounds nice
* Bookmark Highlighter - adds a highlight to links that are already bookmarked
* Bookmark Current Tab Set - useful, as I tend to use bookmarks as session manager; I've lost sessions many times, but never bookmarks
* Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar - hides titles for top-level links in the bookmark toolbar, so it's just a jumble of favicons, which is OK for most-used-stuff that I put there
Yeah, it's a mess, but mostly necessary to have any hope of handling that amount of bookmarks. I'm not really sure why it doesn't feel sluggish, even when comparing to a clean install. I suppose the performance penalty is balanced out by blocking the real CPU/memory sinkholes - JS, ads, third-party connections...