I left firefox once and for all this week. its too bad, i like what the they are working with identity built into the browser.
Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
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Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
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I think Firefox is trying to adopt the Chrome model, which is that version numbers are for the developers only. End users shouldn't need to know which version they're running.
except for when things go wrong and they just say "I'm using firefox and your site is broken".
If all browsers adopt the auto-updating model, that becomes less of a problem.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#43I left firefox once and for all this week. its too bad, i like what the they are working with identity built into the browser.
Chrome/ChromeOS/Chromium(OS) is working on identity built in to the browser as well via multiple profiles:
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#44Can anyone explain why the explicit memory metrics apparently regress between Firefox 7 and Firefox 8?
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#45This version inflation thing is getting a bit out of hand...I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
That's exactly the point. Which version of Gmail are we on right now? 477? Does that feel different from 476? I don't know. I just get performance improvements and new features as they come out.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#46Can anyone explain why the explicit memory metrics apparently regress between Firefox 7 and Firefox 8?
A bug in how they were counted in FF7:
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
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> I like FF. I use it. But every time there's some comment > about FF memory, we usually see a bunch of people coming > out saying they never see FF memory issues, the OP must be > doing something wrong or have a bad system, they use their > computer non-stop for 4 years without ever even seeing FF > slow down, etc. That's because complaints about large memory use in Firefox fall into two camps, generally: 1. "I left…
> I have just over 70 tabs open... I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because you have a different usage style than I (also likely). So if you don't mind elaborating, how do you get to where you have that many tabs open?
Hint: use multiple windows.
One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated again trying to open all these tabs AT ONCE. Poor thing.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
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> I have just over 70 tabs open... I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because you have a different usage style than I (also likely). So if you don't mind elaborating, how do you get to where you have that many tabs open?
Hint: use multiple windows. One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated ag…
I am a tab hoarder also but personally i'm quite impressed at the speed and responsiveness of FF when restarting with 100-or-so tabs.
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I've got six virtual desktops with two monitors. When I'm doing web development, I have one window per screen, which usually means one window of tabs connected to my dev server, and one window of tabs for each framework/language I'm working with. For example, I was working on a WordPress plugin with JQuery, so I had a dozen tabs open on the WordPress function reference, and another dozen tabs open with JQuery stuff.…
> Finally I have two blank desktops that tend to get eaten up by tabs that I use when people come into my office asking questions that I don't know the precise answer to off the top of my head. Why do you keep the tabs open after you've answered their question?
I'm in a remote area with limited Internet - 364 kbps down 128 kbps up shared among 20-30 office workers and over 100 residents. My computer can handle keeping tabs open in case I didn't properly solve the problem before, or if something similar crops up.
So, I have a lot of reference materials open on my desk, and I keep them open because finding the page I was on takes a long time, and loading that page takes even longer.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have just over 70 tabs open... I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because you have a different usage style than I (also likely). So if you don't mind elaborating, how do you get to where you have that many tabs open?
Hint: use multiple windows. One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated ag…
Yeah, I know, I should take my question to Stack Overflow, but does anyone know how to configure FF to not try to reopen tabs after a crash? (Takes a long time on my old machine.)