Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years
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#2>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?
Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years
#3>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?
The tabs are open but not loaded so yeah, it's like a bookmark. Once you click the tab it loads the content.
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#4> Mozilla says it plans to roll out a new profiles feature and a new tab organization feature later this year;
Finally. I hope we get tab groups that work with multi containers.
Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years
#5>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...
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#6>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?
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?
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#7My ex- once commented that had half the internet bookmarked. He suggested it might be faster to Google for things than to hunt for the bookmark.
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#8Earlier 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?
Just quit firefox and restore tabs on restart, all of the tabs are now unloaded but still present in the tab bar.
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#9“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted
Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years
#10>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?