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posted by martyb on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-like-a-fairy-tale dept.

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

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/


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by chromas on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:19AM (3 children)

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:19AM (#546172) Journal

    That sounds like a lot of work. They should just create a new programming language from scratch.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday July 29 2017, @12:13PM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday July 29 2017, @12:13PM (#546220) Journal

    Whats a third Mozilla language going to solve?

    • (Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:09PM (1 child)

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:09PM (#546377) Journal

      Well, clearly the first two didn't get the job done.

      They could pull an Opera and throw out all their effort to become yet another chrome fork.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Saturday July 29 2017, @09:27PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday July 29 2017, @09:27PM (#546428) Journal

        They could pull an Opera and throw out all their effort to become yet another chrome fork.

        Shut up and take my memory!