Nobody seems to mention the plugin Tree Tabs here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/, which IMHO is a much better alternative.
Tree Style Tabs
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I recently realized that chromium is a memory hog, with 50 tabs most of my ram (8G) is gone; while firefor nightly is around 1G, 1.5G maybe with a similar load. I guess this is gonna shrink memory usage even more.
It does seem to use more memory, but at least on my Mac it uses a lot less CPU. For firefox it just takes one bad tab (gmaps, gmail, facebook, youtube/embedded youtube) to grind the whole system to a halt, all these things work fine on chrome, and use almost no CPU on safari.
I feel like everyone has their own anecdotes about this. Surely some third party has done controlled performance profiling on the major browsers? That would be very interesting.
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Firefox 64, MacOS 10.14 I've noticed bugs such as the new tab button stops working (command-t still works though), child tabs not being promoted to top-level tabs when their parent is closed and a few other strange cases of tree state corruption. Particularly it sometimes happens when dragging tabs around to reparent them, although I haven't been able to nail down any concrete rhyme or reason to it. My other extensio…
I'm kind of curious if the other user also uses mac and its an issue that firefox needs better mac support. I recall in a similar thread on hacker news others recounting having had a bad experience with firefox on mac. Have you tried submitting a bug report to the author of TST maybe they don't have a mac and could use more feedback.
Linux on the newest kernel with Intel and Windows 10. Nightly and stable Firefox.
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Certainly alarming to see. Mine build up, I keep them for a few weeks, bookmark a few, and burn the lot periodically - which suggests I shouldn't have bothered with them in the first place. My bookmarks are dumped in a large pile to be one day sorted out. I have hundreds of them. And rather annoyingly are there now with forgotten context. I can't even access the creation dates on Chrome/ium unless I export and data w…
Re: forgotten context I use Firefox's tag feature for this, helps you give a one or two or three word context like: linux, firewall, iptables or devops, cicd
I do use tags with firefox, but I juggle chromium, opera and other browsers and systems.
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Each instance of firefox has its own context. One is unsafe browsing, one is personal browsing, one is development-related browsing, a la Qubes. I used to have a problem with messy, unnavigable bookmarks so now I keep my bookmarks lean and rely on tabs to hold pages I may only need for a month or two at most. It's pretty quick to navigate to a tab with Ctrl+L
How do you create different "instances" of Firefox on the desktop? Or are you just talking about different windows?
You can also run multiple profiles in parallel, using something like
firefox --no-remote --profile-manager
I have that as an alias in bash, and a shortcut on my Windows desktop.
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I had an issue with the coloration on top of that, so I elected to turn the regular system title bar back on. That perfected it for me.
how did you do that?
Right click on the navigation area and choose "Customize..." In the bottom left is a checkbox labeled "Title Bar"