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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by kuschku » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:58 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #6

rc_kas wrote: post #3

I <3 you Firefox. I'm so sad that nobody uses you.

Hard to love when the broken extension ecosystem prevents the use of vertical tabs for these scenarios.

That is broken because it supports more tabs. The multiprocess model is precisely why the old extension model had to be abandoned.

Sadly, the new extension model isn’t nearly ready for prime time yet.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by manuelmagic » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:58 PM UTC

I have the bad habit to open many tabs on my old MacBook (mid 2010). Boot time, together with CPU usage, is one of the main reasons I had to use Opera as my primary browser. I'm really happy to see this might change in the near future.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by elfchief » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:58 PM UTC

Wow. I've been getting more and more frustrated with how poorly Chrome handles even a moderately large number of tabs (~150), and it sounds like my savior is going to be ... Firefox. Huh.

Wouldn't have guessed it, but I'll totally take it.

I have a nice extension for Chrome called Quick Tabs that gives me a searchable list of my open tabs and makes it easy to find things I have open... anyone know which of the several things that seem to do that with Firefox would be the best to use?

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by outworlder » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 9:59 PM UTC

I use Firefox as much as I can, for many reasons. Two things keep me from using it all the time:

– Yubikey – My Chromebook (I would use and equivalent FirefoxOS if given the choice)

There are performance issues in some cases but nothing major. It is still somewhat slow compared to Chrome, even though this may be due to optimizations done specifically for Chrome.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by septentrional » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:01 PM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #10

septentrional wrote: post #7

Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic but how do you make Firefox' tab bar look like the one in the article (i.e. no rounded edges for the tabs) on MacOS?

Firefox has two alternative built-in themes, compact light and compact dark.

I've never noticed this, thank you!

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by revelation » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

Whut? It didn't get any faster, it's just more aggressively lazy loaded now. This is breaking the very use case of people who have 100+ tabs; they want stuff to be there when they click on it.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by shorlander » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #8

recursive wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm eternally irritated that it doesn't support date inputs. This has been a thorn in my side for years.

This is being actively worked on and coming soon to Firefox.

Should be in 56: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/06/12/datetime-inputs-...

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by valuearb » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

Dear god, why?

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by aboodman » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:04 PM UTC

Why do you have a profile w/ 1600 tabs in it. If whatever it is is so important, aren't you afraid to lose it? I'd be terrified that one time Firefox just wouldn't shut down clean.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by mrkrabo » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 10:04 PM UTC

I suppose I'm alone in getting all nervous if I have more than 10 tabs open.