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by mistermann 3693 days ago
Could you possibly comment on FF's seeming inability to unload tabs from memory? There are numerous add-ons that claim to unload tabs and free up that memory, but none of them work as advertised.

And, when FF crashes and reloads, restoring all the tabs, it seems like the tabs aren't loaded (the page is blank and does a reload when selected), yet if you look in task manager (Windows 7), all the memory seems to have already been consumed.

Should tabs be able to be unloaded from memory, in theory? If so, is it implemented this way? If not, is there a reason?