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What if I have 6 chome windows each with 10-30 tabs?

beagle3 8y ago
Switch to firefox. I have one window with over 1000 tabs, and it all takes just 4GB virtual, 2GB resident. Older versions gave me the incentive to sort things out by slowing down with many tabs or taking too much memory. Now, I unfortunately just accumulate :( At the current rate, I'll likely never get down to 0, as I find more interesting things per day than I can read....
- severine 8y ago
  Also, if you still have memory/performance problems, these two addons make a noticeable difference: - LoadTabOnSelect: Load new tabs on selection. This addon will prevent new tabs from automatically loading, instead loading them on selection. The intended usage of the addon is to facilitate power-users who open many tabs before viewing, but dislike auto-playing videos (and other annoyances). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonselect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonsele... -- - Auto Tab Discard: Use native tab discard method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... edit: typos
  - BerislavLopac 8y ago
    > LoadTabOnSelect As this is a built-in feature of Firefox, I'm curious if there are any additional benefits this addon provides? Edit: Oh, I'm a bit slow, apparently this prevents loading a tab even on the initial click (the built-in option only prevents it on startup). Thanks, looks useful!
ajeet_dhaliwal 8y ago
The original question is asking about a few articles he/she wants to read later, if you have 180 articles (6 * 30) you want to get back to you’d probably we wise to use an alternate system. Personally I am familiar with the problem the original question asks about and that’s how I find it frictionless to handle. If it’s getting to such a large number as you describe I doubt I’d ever come back to reading them because I’d notice something new I’m interested in too and keep adding to the list.
BerislavLopac 8y ago
Switch to Firefox, with the option to load tabs only when they're in focus. Your computer will be very grateful for that.
mdrzn 8y ago
I rarely have a Chrome window with less than 50 tabs, but at least it'll encourage you to take the time to read the articles.
abhishekjha 8y ago
Linux OS with SSD really gave me a different picture. I have 338 tabs open right now across 5 chrome windows. It is taking up almost all of my RAM but the response is very very quick. I had HDD earlier and my OS used to crash every now and then. Now I keep putting my computer to hibernate/sleep and I am able to retrieve history up until a month.

Switch to firefox. I have one window with over 1000 tabs, and it all takes just 4GB virtual, 2GB resident. Older versions gave me the incentive to sort things out by slowing down with many tabs or taking too much memory. Now, I unfortunately just accumulate :( At the current rate, I'll likely never get down to 0, as I find more interesting things per day than I can read....

severine 8y ago
Also, if you still have memory/performance problems, these two addons make a noticeable difference: - LoadTabOnSelect: Load new tabs on selection. This addon will prevent new tabs from automatically loading, instead loading them on selection. The intended usage of the addon is to facilitate power-users who open many tabs before viewing, but dislike auto-playing videos (and other annoyances). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonselect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonsele... -- - Auto Tab Discard: Use native tab discard method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc... edit: typos
- BerislavLopac 8y ago
  > LoadTabOnSelect As this is a built-in feature of Firefox, I'm curious if there are any additional benefits this addon provides? Edit: Oh, I'm a bit slow, apparently this prevents loading a tab even on the initial click (the built-in option only prevents it on startup). Thanks, looks useful!

ajeet_dhaliwal 8y ago

The original question is asking about a few articles he/she wants to read later, if you have 180 articles (6 * 30) you want to get back to you’d probably we wise to use an alternate system. Personally I am familiar with the problem the original question asks about and that’s how I find it frictionless to handle. If it’s getting to such a large number as you describe I doubt I’d ever come back to reading them because I’d notice something new I’m interested in too and keep adding to the list.

BerislavLopac 8y ago

Switch to Firefox, with the option to load tabs only when they're in focus. Your computer will be very grateful for that.

mdrzn 8y ago

I rarely have a Chrome window with less than 50 tabs, but at least it'll encourage you to take the time to read the articles.

abhishekjha 8y ago

Linux OS with SSD really gave me a different picture. I have 338 tabs open right now across 5 chrome windows. It is taking up almost all of my RAM but the response is very very quick. I had HDD earlier and my OS used to crash every now and then. Now I keep putting my computer to hibernate/sleep and I am able to retrieve history up until a month.