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I’ve seen Firefox north of 20gb on my 32gb desktop more than once, and tab crashes are a daily annoyance. Worse, it doesn’t seem appreciably faster on machines

I’ve seen Firefox north of 20gb on my 32gb desktop more than once, and tab crashes are a daily annoyance. Worse, it doesn’t seem appreciably faster on machines with less memory. I wish there was some config flag I could set that would put it on a diet...

behringer 7y ago
Stop hoarding tabs. Anyway I think those are arguments in the past anyway.
- wizzwizz4 7y ago
  Firefox can cope with tab hoarding pretty well, so long as they're not all pinned or anything and you restart your browser every so often.
- Karunamon 7y ago
  "In the past"? I can reproduce this on my daily driver today. Why do I need to change my workflow because Firefox got worse at what I've used it for for years? If I have to change the way I work, why not change browsers too? If there's a tab limit beyond which Firefox can't effectively control itself, why is that not a hard coded limit?
  - behringer 7y ago
    Ram is cheap: https://www.amazon.com/slp/memory-ram-ddr4/rcnyvqomjbxu8pj https://www.amazon.com/slp/memory-ram-ddr4/rcnyvqomjbxu8pj
    - Karunamon 7y ago
      My time is not. 32Gb is a monstrous amount of RAM for a desktop, there's no reason reason for tabs to be randomly dying with memory issues.
      - behringer 7y ago
        Ok, but I've been using firefox for years without that much ram and never had an issue. You should give it a try and stop believing the hype.
        Karunamon 7y ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713382
olyjohn 7y ago
You might want to look into using the bookmarks feature.