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I've been using TST for many years and it's really the killer feature that keeps bringing me back to firefox. For those running on older machines who still lik

by ttsda 8y ago

I've been using TST for many years and it's really the killer feature that keeps bringing me back to firefox. For those running on older machines who still like having a big tab hierarchy with stuff to check later, there's the "Auto Tab Discard" [1] extension which will discard older tabs from memory while keeping the tab itself, with optional exceptions for pinned tabs, tabs with filled forms, ... Unfortunately there are still some websites that force me to have Chrome installed, biggest culprit being Facebook which is completely unusable on my 2014 MBP through Firefox. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

agumonkey 8y ago
I recently realized that chromium is a memory hog, with 50 tabs most of my ram (8G) is gone; while firefor nightly is around 1G, 1.5G maybe with a similar load. I guess this is gonna shrink memory usage even more.
- ttsda 8y ago
  It does seem to use more memory, but at least on my Mac it uses a lot less CPU. For firefox it just takes one bad tab (gmaps, gmail, facebook, youtube/embedded youtube) to grind the whole system to a halt, all these things work fine on chrome, and use almost no CPU on safari.
  - agumonkey 8y ago
    I'm having issues with cpu usage, it's not binary, but very often some subprocess runs at 20-40% cpu usage even when nothing visible occurs. what a joy
  - therealdrag0 8y ago
    I feel like everyone has their own anecdotes about this. Surely some third party has done controlled performance profiling on the major browsers? That would be very interesting.
progval 8y ago
> biggest culprit being Facebook which is completely unusable on my 2014 MBP through Firefox I use the mobile version [1] for this reason (and also because it works with JS disabled). It's as fast as it could get, and most of the useful features are available. [1] https://m.facebook.com/ https://m.facebook.com/

by ttsda 8y ago

agumonkey 8y ago

I recently realized that chromium is a memory hog, with 50 tabs most of my ram (8G) is gone; while firefor nightly is around 1G, 1.5G maybe with a similar load. I guess this is gonna shrink memory usage even more.

ttsda 8y ago
It does seem to use more memory, but at least on my Mac it uses a lot less CPU. For firefox it just takes one bad tab (gmaps, gmail, facebook, youtube/embedded youtube) to grind the whole system to a halt, all these things work fine on chrome, and use almost no CPU on safari.
- agumonkey 8y ago
  I'm having issues with cpu usage, it's not binary, but very often some subprocess runs at 20-40% cpu usage even when nothing visible occurs. what a joy
- therealdrag0 8y ago
  I feel like everyone has their own anecdotes about this. Surely some third party has done controlled performance profiling on the major browsers? That would be very interesting.

progval 8y ago

> biggest culprit being Facebook which is completely unusable on my 2014 MBP through Firefox I use the mobile version [1] for this reason (and also because it works with JS disabled). It's as fast as it could get, and most of the useful features are available. [1] https://m.facebook.com/ https://m.facebook.com/