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My Firefox wishlist: 1) Make background tabs completely frozen by default. No intelligent guessing. Simply assign zero CPU time to them. But give the user an e
by no_gravity 10y ago
My Firefox wishlist:
1) Make background tabs completely frozen by default. No intelligent guessing. Simply assign zero CPU time to them. But give the user an easy to use switch to toggle the activity of a tab. So I can activate background tabs and freeze foreground tabs just as I like.
2) One process per tab. Even with e10s, all javascript in all tabs runs on a single core. So at the moment, using Firefox on an 8 core computer is like using Chromium on a single core machine.
3) Make the url bar functional immediately on startup. Right now, every time I start Firefox, it takes several seconds until I can start typing the url I want to go to. In Chromium, I can start typing right away.
4) Don't set a bookmark every time I press CTRL+d. Only set it after I clicked "done" in the bookmark dialog that pops up on CTRL+d.
- bgirard 10y agoRE 2: Firefox uses a lot of threads for image decoding, GC, compositing, running the UI. So it's nothing like running on a single core machine. Threads != processes.
- fabrice_d 10y agoFor 2), go to about:config and search for the "dom.ipc.processCount" preferences. Set it to the number of cores you wish and enjoy.
- no_gravity 10y agoInteresting. I am trying it out right now.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- krzyk 10y agoFor 2), you would get what Chrome has - memory hungry browser. I tried using it for a month, but for my workflow (>100 tabs open) it ate my whole memory.
- mintplant 10y ago> 2) One process per tab. Even with e10s, all javascript in all tabs runs on a single core. So at the moment, using Firefox on an 8 core computer is like using Chromium on a single core machine. Multiple content processes (e10s-multi) is in the works, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Multiple_content_processes https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Multiple_content_proce...
- yoklov 10y ago> 1) Make background tabs completely frozen by default. No intelligent guessing. A lot of people will do things like listen to music, watch videos, etc. in background tabs. Stuff like slack/irccloud/gmail notifications would be dead too...