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Right now I have 376 tabs open in Firefox, on Windows laptop with 8 GB RAM. They were 600, but I did a purge a few months ago. 0 0 performance problems. Just

Right now I have 376 tabs open in Firefox, on Windows laptop with 8 GB RAM. They were 600, but I did a purge a few months ago. 0 0 performance problems. Just my 2 cents.

darkwater 6y ago
Can I ask you why do you leave all those tabs opened all the time? When I get to 20-25 I go mad and start frantically close almost all of them. I really depend on Awesome Bar to reopen sites though (but I like it)
- godelski 6y ago
  They are things I want to revisit and I found that putting in a "To Sort" bookmark folder doesn't cause me to revisit. I am forced to eventually revisit and decide if I still need it or not. But I don't go to 300 tabs, I usually purge around 100 or less.
- asia92 6y ago
  Research, trains of thought, read later
jabirali 6y ago
We have very different experiences in that case. Once I go past ~100 open tabs on Firefox, on a 16GB RAM Linux laptop, my whole system freezes. I experienced these issues as late as in June, so it doesn't appear to have been recently fixed either. Note that I do use uBlock Origin so it doesn't just buckle under from ads, but I also make heavy use of Container Tabs, which may also be a factor. Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me.
- niutech 6y ago
  You can go to about:performance and see which tab is problematic.
  - jabirali 6y ago
    Thanks for the tip! I currently don't have many tabs open, but was surprised to see every one of my work Office365 tabs (mail, calendar, etc.) at 100+ MB each...
- godelski 6y ago
  > Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me. This looks like a useful extension to me (I'd even love if this was a native FF feature). But I'm noticing it has full access to web pages. Does anyone know how Richard Neomy deals with this data?
- Tagbert 6y ago
  Perhaps the contents of the pages in each tab could account for such differences in resource usage? A tab count is a very very rough measure. A JavaScript heavy page can have a massive footprint compared to a simple content page.

Right now I have 376 tabs open in Firefox, on Windows laptop with 8 GB RAM. They were 600, but I did a purge a few months ago. 0 0 performance problems. Just my 2 cents.

darkwater 6y ago

Can I ask you why do you leave all those tabs opened all the time? When I get to 20-25 I go mad and start frantically close almost all of them. I really depend on Awesome Bar to reopen sites though (but I like it)

godelski 6y ago
They are things I want to revisit and I found that putting in a "To Sort" bookmark folder doesn't cause me to revisit. I am forced to eventually revisit and decide if I still need it or not. But I don't go to 300 tabs, I usually purge around 100 or less.
asia92 6y ago
Research, trains of thought, read later

jabirali 6y ago

We have very different experiences in that case. Once I go past ~100 open tabs on Firefox, on a 16GB RAM Linux laptop, my whole system freezes. I experienced these issues as late as in June, so it doesn't appear to have been recently fixed either. Note that I do use uBlock Origin so it doesn't just buckle under from ads, but I also make heavy use of Container Tabs, which may also be a factor. Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me.

niutech 6y ago
You can go to about:performance and see which tab is problematic.
- jabirali 6y ago
  Thanks for the tip! I currently don't have many tabs open, but was surprised to see every one of my work Office365 tabs (mail, calendar, etc.) at 100+ MB each...
godelski 6y ago
> Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me. This looks like a useful extension to me (I'd even love if this was a native FF feature). But I'm noticing it has full access to web pages. Does anyone know how Richard Neomy deals with this data?
Tagbert 6y ago
Perhaps the contents of the pages in each tab could account for such differences in resource usage? A tab count is a very very rough measure. A JavaScript heavy page can have a massive footprint compared to a simple content page.