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Only 17 tabs? Although I'd love to be able to organize tabs better, I don't care about that nearly as much as I care about the performance of my system when th
by Goladus 16y ago
Only 17 tabs? Although I'd love to be able to organize tabs better, I don't care about that nearly as much as I care about the performance of my system when that many tabs are open. (a) Memory usage (b) risk of some plugin or javascript on a page causing firefox to start eating 99% of my cpu.
Theoretically those two problems can be solved concurrently, but still-- favicons, hotkeys, and the ability to drag and drop solves most of my problems with tab organization. I use alternate windows only when really necessary.
What I'd really like is to have a second, isolated firefox process that I can run alongside my main one with as much functional independence as possible. One process will be for the relatively safe, familiar, and stable, text-oriented type sites with minimal advertising (hacker news, gmail, wikipedia, python.org, clojure.org, paulgraham.com, etc.), and the other process will be for heavy sites, new/risky sites, or otherwise problematic sites (eg if I have a youtube tab open I can't ctrl-PgDwn past it, when I hit that tab I have to stop and use the mouse-- a pain in the ass).
While Chrome's process-per-tab model is really nice, they're still all tied together and there's a risk of losing everything sometimes.
- carussell 16y agoWhat I'd really like is to have a second, isolated firefox process that I can run alongside my main one with as much functional independence as possible. What's stopping you from running a separate process?
- eagleal 16y agoFirefox is a single-process application, and won't let you start another one (at least sharing the same user data; you can run a different build, but you can't share/use the same user data).
- carussell 16y agoGiven that you're looking for "functional independence", I don't understand why you'd want it to run on the same profile. Share your bookmarks and history between them with Firefox Sync, and tailor your selection of add-ons to the types of content you'll be viewing with each one.