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Interesting. This doesn't match my experience at all. When I have lots of tabs open in Firefox, there are occasional pauses where everything, including the bro
by ori_b 15y ago
Interesting. This doesn't match my experience at all.
When I have lots of tabs open in Firefox, there are occasional pauses where everything, including the browser's chrome, freezes. I've never noticed these pauses in Chrome.
And yes, I do open hundreds of tabs. (As a side note, Chrome's far smaller minimum tab size is a major bonus for my usage, simply because I can see more tabs without scrolling the tab bar).
- zobzu 15y agoyou need Firefox 8 to feel the improvements
- ori_b 15y agoPerhaps, but if this test is accurate, Chrome has also gotten far, far worse in recent versions. I find that surprising.
- starwed 15y agoThis test isn't about having lots of tabs open, but having lots of tabs opening, all loading at the same time.
- ori_b 15y agoOk. So, apparently, it's testing a usecase that doesn't happen in normal use. So why should I care?
- starwed 15y agoYou don't have to? This was a blog post written by a guy whose job is to care about Firefox's memory usage. Most of his work goes into improving every day memory usage, but he thought it would be interesting to see what happens in an extreme case. Chrome is the main competitor, so he ran the same tests against it, so there was something to compare to. No doubt some portion of people upvoting this article are invested in a Firefox v. Chrome narrative, but that really wasn't the point of the original article.