• @Gigan
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    549 months ago

    Firefox uses lots of RAM

    • @cm0002
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      229 months ago

      And not very efficiently either, can’t seem to handle 99+ tabs and starts getting unstable as you get closer to that number.

      Chrome at least can handle 300-600 tabs across 30 windows (The most I’ve ever pushed it) without breaking a sweat

      • @SkyeHarith
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        609 months ago

        I think you have a tab problem.

        I suggest you try out a 12 step program. Tabaholics Anonymous works.

      • Mayor Poopington
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        319 months ago

        Are you the guy that posted on the Microsoft forums about Edge crashing after 1600 open tabs?

      • @SkyezOpen
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        139 months ago

        And I thought I was a monster with 50 tabs.

        • JackFrostNCola
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          29 months ago

          Man the highest tabs amount of tabs i get up to is in the 30s, and only in private browsing mode.

      • @Ibaudia
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        109 months ago

        What could you possibly be doing with 600 tabs??

      • Deebster
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        89 months ago

        Oh whoops, I should close some windows, because I currently have 623 open tabs in Firefox across 107 windows. It’s working fine, even with all my plugins running. Firefox is good at unloading dormant tabs.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          They’re probably talking about their experience on their hardware, we don’t know what machine or what version of Firefox they’re talking about. (It’s possible it’s a really old version and not really relevant now or it’s possible their experience is valid for their hardware)

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        Well, I HATE having many tabs open. Just bookmark them for later. So far, FF is friendlier with how I go whereas the last times I tried Chrome, it often allocates RAM at launch for a thousand tabs that will never exist (hyperbole but you get it)

      • @Guy_Fieris_Hair
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        29 months ago

        I am not sure what you can possibly expect of any program. That is absurd.

        • @cm0002
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          Well if Chrome “The RAM Eater” can handle it, then it’s obviously not that absurd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • nudny ekscentryk
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      139 months ago

      Yep, I use Firefox for the idea, but let’s stop kidding ourselves that it is in any way memory efficient or fast