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/
(Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:09PM (1 child)
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
Shut up and take my memory!