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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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>A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever." So they are not that different from bookmarks then?

My 100+ tabs consuming 12GB of RAM says otherwise...

I upgraded from 16gb to 32gb of RAM expressly because of firefox.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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>A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever." So they are not that different from bookmarks then?

Then why does my firefox freeze my comp if I have too many tabs open?

You can have thousands of unloaded tabs, but loaded tabs can gobble up memory and your computer may start swapping. It will usually recover from that but it can take a minute or two. If you get that often, you can open about:processes , sort on memory use and kill a few of the largest processes, which will unload their tabs.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tabs are open but not loaded so yeah, it's like a bookmark. Once you click the tab it loads the content.

I thought you needed an extension to unload tabs?

about:processes can kill processes, which will unload their tabs.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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I don’t need 7400, but I do have about 50-100 open in different spaces (personal/work/hobbies).

What Firefox lacks for me, is the ability to sync these open tabs to different devices seamlessly.

The only browsers that do this well right now are Edge and Arc browser, and this is the reason I abandoned Firefox about 1 year ago.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

I don't understand "tab hoarders" but I also don't understand why Mac users pollute their desktop with a thousand icons either. I guess some people like clean workspaces, and some don't mind clutter.
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