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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @03:08PM (#546274)

    1. MEMORY LEAKS - Seriously, Mozilla has so many memory leaks it isn't funny.

    Yep, but, with V56 (I've had a Nightly of V56 running for a week now) they have seriously cut down on the leaks big time. With my normal tab load (yes, too many, but not thousands) a week of usage in V53 would result in a firefox that was consuming at least 4-6G of RAM.

    With a week of usage of V56, it has gone from a start of 1.1G of RAM used to 1.6G of RAM used

    Yes, that is still 0.5G of leak, but that is much better than 5-6G of leak over the same run time. So they have made a huge improvement. Yes, they still have a long way to go, but V56 is much improved.