Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options

Post by mercer » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 1:20 PM UTC

greglindahl wrote: post #84

mercer wrote: post #82

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Damn. I tried switching back to Firefox with the assumption that these issues were fixed. After using it for the past few days, it really 'felt' dog-slow, but I assumed it was just prejudice on my end :-/.

Huh. Doesn't happen to me. I'd suggest using about:memory to see if you have a leaky tab. In my case, it used to be that my FB and Twitter tabs both leaked a lot. I stopped leaving Twitter open and FB (or Firefox) seems to have fixed their problem.

Yeah, I tried that. the about:memory usage reported is much lower (and strikes me as more reasonable).

I use an unload tab extension so currently there should be no 'open' tabs. Memory usage is at 1.5Gb though. It doesn't seem to go much higher or lower, though, so could it be that FF just takes/keeps the RAM it can get and doesn't bother to unload stuff?

It's also true that my MacBook has become slower in general since I updated to the latest MacOS, so perhaps it's not FF fault. Still, very annoying.

Post by CharlesW » Mon, Mar 27, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

dandrino wrote: post #40

CharlesW wrote: post #31

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Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?

This has been a pattern for selecting ranges of text for a long time: if you place your cursor in one location and shift click in another it will select all the text in between. Also works with most file browsers. It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too. Bonus fact: the itemized selection done via Ctrl-click also works with tabs. If you use Ctrl-W you can close these tabs, or if you drag one of th…

> It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too.

For sure, it's an "obvious in retrospect" sort of thing once stumbled upon. :) After a bit of research, the mechanics appear to have debuted in Chrome in 2013. Any earlier examples?

Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options

Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options