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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by smichel17 »

userbinator wrote: post #171

"Ridiculous" is right, especially from a UI perspective --- it still puzzles me why they would design it so that by default all the tabs are crammed into the place which used to be the titlebar, making it difficult to both read the title and find the tab you're looking for. I've seen others start opening multiple windows when the tabs get too small. I usually do that to keep tabs grouped into "pages I am unlikely to…

I do as you do, but I use the tab groups addon and use groups instead of windows.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by johnp_ »

suby wrote: post #366
ac29 wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, if you go to about:support are HW_COMPOSITING and OPENGL_COMPOSITING enabled? Someone (likely here) mentioned that setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true in about:config makes a dramatic difference in performance, and based on my limited experience, it does. So much so, that I'm thinking about switching to Firefox after many years of only using it sparingly due to lousy performance on Linux co…

Is there a particular reason that layers.acceleration.force-enabled is off by default?

Linux users have a lower priority and there are some hard to debug issues with graphics drivers and sometimes it causes horrible performance and freezes.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=ogl-linux-beta

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by JetSpiegel »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #60

I've been considering switching to Firefox due to these performance improvements, but the one feature that's always missing is for the location bar to autocomplete terms from other sources such as Wikipedia. Is there some add-on I can install that can fix this? Safari is brilliant here. If you enter something in Safari's location bar, it will suggest Wikipedia and other search suggestions right away [1]. I use this f…

Regarding [3], are you suggesting Mozilla should sell advertising on the AwesomeBar or are you suggesting they should spy on their users to provide this feature?

What makes a URL "Top Hit"? If it is simple popularity, how do you propose Mozilla to gauge this? This problem is better punted to search engines, IMHO.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by [deleted] »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #483
lobster_johnson wrote: post #60

I've been considering switching to Firefox due to these performance improvements, but the one feature that's always missing is for the location bar to autocomplete terms from other sources such as Wikipedia. Is there some add-on I can install that can fix this? Safari is brilliant here. If you enter something in Safari's location bar, it will suggest Wikipedia and other search suggestions right away [1]. I use this f…

Regarding [3], are you suggesting Mozilla should sell advertising on the AwesomeBar or are you suggesting they should spy on their users to provide this feature? What makes a URL "Top Hit"? If it is simple popularity, how do you propose Mozilla to gauge this? This problem is better punted to search engines, IMHO.

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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by zhte415 »

ianamartin wrote: post #387
huntie wrote: post #39

I'm really glad that people at Mozilla use ridiculous numbers of tabs too. Lazy-loading of tabs is the reason I switched to firefox. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but Chrome used to load every tab on startup. So even if you only had 100 tabs, you were looking at 5+ minute startup time. God-forbid that any of them were Youtube, or you'd have to go through and pause them all. I've just updated to Firefox 55 to t…

This is not just for power users. My mother is about the most opposite of power user that there is. But she constantly has hundreds of tabs open when I go to visit her and do my obligatory tech support duties. She uses tabs like bookmarks, even though she bookmarks everything. I've tried to coach her on working with the bookmarks better, but she has her system, and she's sticking to it. And to be fair, I don't know h…

It isn't always them and us. Empathise more,

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by lobster_johnson »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #483
lobster_johnson wrote: post #60

I've been considering switching to Firefox due to these performance improvements, but the one feature that's always missing is for the location bar to autocomplete terms from other sources such as Wikipedia. Is there some add-on I can install that can fix this? Safari is brilliant here. If you enter something in Safari's location bar, it will suggest Wikipedia and other search suggestions right away [1]. I use this f…

Regarding [3], are you suggesting Mozilla should sell advertising on the AwesomeBar or are you suggesting they should spy on their users to provide this feature? What makes a URL "Top Hit"? If it is simple popularity, how do you propose Mozilla to gauge this? This problem is better punted to search engines, IMHO.

I don't know, and I don't care, I just see it as a big usability gap compared to Safari. It could use Alexa or something.

But at least it could autocomplete sites I've already visited. For example, say I've visited microsoft.com. The next time I type "micros", it could offer microsoft.com as the first autocompletion, which is what Safari does [1]. Instead you get this [2].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/JLDaquM.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/XrjaQyf.png

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by kanzure »

lkcl wrote: post #314
kanzure wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also use many 100s of browser tabs almost all the time. The Opera browser in 2009-2011 used to handle 500 tabs easily for me. These days I am often sitting at >200 tabs in both Chrome and Firefox on same machine. I'd like to see a command line interface to manage my open tabs, so that I can see which tabs are going to be "expired" soon (unloaded into a stale tab, or converted into bookmarks as long-term cold storag…

vimperator aka pentadactyl. works really well and if you press the alt key you get the "standard" menu back. it increases screen real-estate, and i love it. it's by no means perfect but i won't go back to standard key bindings in firefox... ever. yes i also have 200-300 tabs open in firefox, and maintain them there for months at a time. firefox continues to eat memory (i got a laptop with 16 GB of RAM just to cope wi…

ok clarified with you later that i meant xpcom bindings not keyboard bindings :)

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by mistermann »

sleepychu wrote: post #157
surement wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bigger problem with Chrome is that it doesn't support multiple rows of tabs. The usual reasoning is "close some tabs!" For someone who uses a monitor in portrait mode, this is painfully ridiculous.

Conform to widescreen! I'm sympathetic, I use my two secondary 1080ps in portrait. I think I used to use a vim plugin on Chrome that had a sublime-ctrl+p-like feature to just search through my open tabs for the one I wanted.

I'd kill for something that could search across Firefox and Chrome tabs - sometimes I know I have something open, but not sure which browser app. I did have an addin like this for FF, but with the performance issues FF already has, it wasn't realistic to run it.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bbernoulli »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #147

I'm torn between thinking it's time to switch back to Firefox, and thinking I need to avoid Firefox at all costs, because the slowdown when Chrome gets over 100+ tabs is the only thing keeping my browser windows remotely navigable. You know what I really want? A way to attach titles to browser windows. This window is "Games", this one is for "Books", this one is for my current "Work" task, this one is "Research" on t…

I would like a way to have opera tab stacks style groups but also with functionality to somehow automatically group tabs based on title, url, etc.
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