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Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by tofflos »

pjc50 wrote: post #44
rayiner wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who really cares about restoring browser state? Maybe I lose part of an HN or Facebook post I'd been writing, but that's it. The feature should be opt-in, IMHO.

I certainly care about it, although it's possible that my 50-odd browser tabs would be considered "clutter" by other people. I stopped using Edge because it only saves your tab session if you turn off the PC, not if you quit the browser. Mind you, for a while I ran Firefox using a RAMdisc for the profile simply because all that flushing makes a big negative impact on PC performance.

You're in good shape. I'm at 337 tabs. ;-)

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

raverbashing wrote: post #21
blinkingled wrote: post #6

Even better just disable session restore entirely - Browser.sessionstore.enabled - Since Firefox 3.5 this preference is superseded with setting browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0. As I understand this feature is there so if the browser crashes it can restore your windows and tabs - I don't remember having a browser crash on me since the demise of Flash.

Replace Browser Crash with: Accidentally pressing Ctrl-w And yes, there are browser crashes without Flash

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Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by sdkmvx »

garaetjjte wrote: post #50
raverbashing wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replace Browser Crash with: Accidentally pressing Ctrl-w And yes, there are browser crashes without Flash

Ctrl-W is not that bad, but I sometimes want to close tab by Ctrl-W but instead hit Ctrl-Q...

I've been setting browser.showQuitWarning to true for years to stop ^Q from killing the browser and with it my state.

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by SilasX »

blinkingled wrote: post #6

Even better just disable session restore entirely - Browser.sessionstore.enabled - Since Firefox 3.5 this preference is superseded with setting browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0. As I understand this feature is there so if the browser crashes it can restore your windows and tabs - I don't remember having a browser crash on me since the demise of Flash.

It happens relatively often for me, maybe 1-2 times a month. No crazy extensions.

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by jhasse »

garaetjjte wrote: post #50
raverbashing wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replace Browser Crash with: Accidentally pressing Ctrl-w And yes, there are browser crashes without Flash

Ctrl-W is not that bad, but I sometimes want to close tab by Ctrl-W but instead hit Ctrl-Q...

Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ctrl-...

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by wodenokoto »

HorizonXP wrote: post #2

Wow, that's really unfortunate. I just built a new PC with SSDs, and switched back to Firefox. Even with 16GB of RAM on an i3-2120, Firefox still hiccups and lags when I open new tabs or try to scroll. This new issue of it prematurely wearing out my SSDs will just push me to Chrome. Hopefully it doesn't have the same issues.

I have an old dual core with 4 gigs of ram and Firefox runs better than chrome.

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by tyleraldrich »

blinkingled wrote: post #48
oridecon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't remember having a browser crash on me since the demise of Flash. Just try browsing reddit with the RES extension or streaming heavy data for a few seconds (like a server side PDF processor that takes more than 30 seconds to finish, it's the same old behavior of blocking JS dialogs from years ago, white screen of death). When I'm using a iGPU (512MB) and I open some heavy images in sequence the browser crash…

> RES extension or streaming heavy data Yeah that's the difference - I only use few well known extensions like uBlock Origin, Self Destructing Cookies, Lastpass and Decentraleyes. No trouble with any PDFs either. Anyway this is getting off track with the crashes or not - my point was even if it crashes it is no big deal if you can't restore - just reopen will work in most cases.

> I only use few well known extensions

RES is more well known (in terms of number of downloads/users) than 50% of your listed extensions, for the record.

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by sbierwagen »

blinkingled wrote: post #6

Even better just disable session restore entirely - Browser.sessionstore.enabled - Since Firefox 3.5 this preference is superseded with setting browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0. As I understand this feature is there so if the browser crashes it can restore your windows and tabs - I don't remember having a browser crash on me since the demise of Flash.

I haven't had a browser crash for a while, but fairly routinely Windows will reboot itself to apply an update. (Once every other month, at least)

Re: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

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Post by jacobsenscott »

blinkingled wrote: post #6

Even better just disable session restore entirely - Browser.sessionstore.enabled - Since Firefox 3.5 this preference is superseded with setting browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0. As I understand this feature is there so if the browser crashes it can restore your windows and tabs - I don't remember having a browser crash on me since the demise of Flash.

I need to regularly kill firefox. I just did in fact. It didn't technically crash, but it becomes totally non-responsive for seconds at a time. Maybe it is a misbehaving plugin and not ff, but the effect is the same.
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