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That's been my experience too, I've never actually noticed the performance problems people are talking in the years I've used it. I mean, I heard ones like 'It
by ta457457457 8y ago
That's been my experience too, I've never actually noticed the performance problems people are talking in the years I've used it. I mean, I heard ones like 'It bogs down after 100 tabs', but that to me is an extreme edge case and more a personal problem than the browsers fault (bit tongue in cheek, I'm sure there are plenty of valid use cases).
Other developers on teams I've been on certainly pushed it hard (mostly for the dev tools, which I admit I went to Chrome for at times), so there was 'grassroots' support there if I've used that word correctly, whether that came from being hoodwinked by The Great Advertiser I don't know.
- hakfoo 8y agoLately, I've had a lot of performance issues with Firefox. I can pop open Task Manager at random times and see Firefox in the 2GB range (this on an 8Gb machine running Slack, Chrome and PHPStorm at the same time, so it's a little cramped for RAM at the best) and I'm running 20-30 tabs. Even chopping down to a handful still keeps you well over 2Gb. It won't seize completely the way it used to prior to multiprocess, but you get this weird situation where you get a spinner just switching tabs. For many years, I defaulted to Firefox because of an extension I loved (FireFTP) which could never make the leap to WebExtensions. I can recall developing on Firefox then patching things to make IE6 happy. But on my home machine I switched to Vivaldi entirely.
- abdullahkhalids 8y agoWell closing tabs still keeps some tabs (I think 10) in memory for the reopen recent tabs feature. You can always go to about:memory and click clear memory and that should help - though I have never had to do that.