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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: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:24AM (1 child)

    by driverless (4770) on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:24AM (#546205)

    +1. I can make Firefox die (slow down to the point where it takes 15-30s to respond to a mouse click, then eventually go into "program is not responding mode" with 100% CPU used) with five tabs or less. Just go to a site with a few animated GIFs on each page, e.g. that Pokemon-image-cartoon site my kids seem to live on (until Firefox locks up yet again). I don't care if I can load 10 million do-nothing tabs in the background, I want a browser that doesn't go catatonic with a handful of tabs loaded.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:54AM (#546545)

    I can do that on Chrome with only one tab with youtube loaded. Chrome is such a pile of crap that I can't believe that the Fx developers want to give us a second Chrome.