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Chrome open with 100+ tabs Bit off topic, but I don't use Chrome so I wonder: do you mean 100+ visited i.e. active tabs, or are you counting all of them, or do
by stinos 6y ago
Chrome open with 100+ tabs
Bit off topic, but I don't use Chrome so I wonder: do you mean 100+ visited i.e. active tabs, or are you counting all of them, or doesn't Chrome have a distinction between those cases like e.g. Firefox does (i.e. when starting the application it doesn't actually load all tabs until you activate them - so once opened perfomance wise it doesn't matter a lot if it's 10+ or 100+ tabs)?
- snazz 6y agoI'm pretty sure that Chrome does have a distinction between loaded and unloaded tabs (suspended tabs, maybe?), but it definitely manages tabs in a different way from Firefox and Safari. Both Chrome and Firefox can trivially handle 100 suspended tabs on any machine; both would struggle with that many active tabs if the machine didn't have enough RAM to fit them all. This metric really only has to do with the amount of memory that a machine has, in my experience.
- neurostimulant 6y agoChrome will suspend/discard inactive tabs when when the memory pressure is high, and reload it back when you activate the tab again, so you probably can open 1000 tabs and leave it alone without much impact (this feature is exposed as an api and can be triggered by extensions: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#method-discard https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs#method-discard ). But when you activate them all I imagine it would consume too much system resource.