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Hundreds? No way. It runs like crap with a few dozen tabs and I always have to restart it so it doesn't start slowing down and behaving badly.

sharmi 10y ago
I am a chronic tabber. Chrome can barely handle 20 tabs at a time on my machine (A T410 - nearly 5 years old). Firefox can chug along fine with more than a hundred tabs may be a 200. it starts to show problems only when the session restore file reaches 300mb or more. (Yes that is as far as I have pushed firefox.) Firefox is much much better than Chrome. Only chrome can put it's foot in the door and sneak in anywhere due to Google peddling it on all its webapps as the best browser for optimal performance for google apps. Just the search and gmail page is enough to convert the unsuspecting population to think Chrome is better than Firefox. How many of the common masses are actually aware that Firefox exists? How many of them would actually try out both browsers on their systems and evaluate and decide which is best? There are still people who are swayed by endorsements by huge corporations as signals of quality. In their eyes, Google, which is their window/gateway to the internet, saying Chrome is good would just seal the deal.
- FreeFull 10y ago
  I've pushed Firefox over to 650+ tabs before, and it has performed well enough (It has been a while since I've actually had that many tabs actually open.)
reitanqild 10y ago
It feels like I have hundreds more often than not and days between reboots. (W10 mostly now)
seba_dos1 10y ago
Yes way. Now I'm using Tab Center experiment from Test Pilot, which makes it easier for me to clean up unused tabs, so now I'm keeping it around 100, but earlier it was very common for me to have around 600-700 tabs open. Once I got to 1200. It started to feel a bit sluggish during the usage and I had to restart it daily. Restarting took about 3-4 minutes, but it was fine for some time after restart. Eventually got tired of it and reseted the whole session. On the other hand, Chromium becomes almost unusable with around 50 tabs. I cannot imagine having more than 200 tabs open in it, both from UI and CPU/RAM perspective.
hashhar 10y ago
I have 34 tabs open in a tab group which only has blogs, about 30 for Mozilla and GNOME projects, 17 for my minor project, 14 for reddit, imgur and chan, 23 for placements interview and coding stuff plus a lot of miscellaneous stuff puts the total at 143 tabs with ONLY 1.5GB of RAM and almost idle CPU (2 to 3%). I exported the bookmarks and opened them all on chrome and it died!!!

sharmi 10y ago

I am a chronic tabber. Chrome can barely handle 20 tabs at a time on my machine (A T410 - nearly 5 years old). Firefox can chug along fine with more than a hundred tabs may be a 200. it starts to show problems only when the session restore file reaches 300mb or more. (Yes that is as far as I have pushed firefox.) Firefox is much much better than Chrome. Only chrome can put it's foot in the door and sneak in anywhere due to Google peddling it on all its webapps as the best browser for optimal performance for google apps. Just the search and gmail page is enough to convert the unsuspecting population to think Chrome is better than Firefox. How many of the common masses are actually aware that Firefox exists? How many of them would actually try out both browsers on their systems and evaluate and decide which is best? There are still people who are swayed by endorsements by huge corporations as signals of quality. In their eyes, Google, which is their window/gateway to the internet, saying Chrome is good would just seal the deal.

FreeFull 10y ago
I've pushed Firefox over to 650+ tabs before, and it has performed well enough (It has been a while since I've actually had that many tabs actually open.)

reitanqild 10y ago

It feels like I have hundreds more often than not and days between reboots. (W10 mostly now)

seba_dos1 10y ago

Yes way. Now I'm using Tab Center experiment from Test Pilot, which makes it easier for me to clean up unused tabs, so now I'm keeping it around 100, but earlier it was very common for me to have around 600-700 tabs open. Once I got to 1200. It started to feel a bit sluggish during the usage and I had to restart it daily. Restarting took about 3-4 minutes, but it was fine for some time after restart. Eventually got tired of it and reseted the whole session. On the other hand, Chromium becomes almost unusable with around 50 tabs. I cannot imagine having more than 200 tabs open in it, both from UI and CPU/RAM perspective.

hashhar 10y ago

I have 34 tabs open in a tab group which only has blogs, about 30 for Mozilla and GNOME projects, 17 for my minor project, 14 for reddit, imgur and chan, 23 for placements interview and coding stuff plus a lot of miscellaneous stuff puts the total at 143 tabs with ONLY 1.5GB of RAM and almost idle CPU (2 to 3%). I exported the bookmarks and opened them all on chrome and it died!!!