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by ksec 4860 days ago
I am a Firefox users so this is not coming from a bashing Firefox POV. I could open 100 - 200 Tabs in Firefox without problem if i disable Javascript and all Add on.

As soon as you have some heavy JS usage website, even 50 Tabs can slow down the UI. This is on Quad Core Ivy and 8GB Ram with SSD.

The amount of JS on one website now is getting insane. Chrome have similar problem as well like the OP have said. Just a different one.

So it is not FUD at all.

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The FUD is that the # of tabs has anything to do with it. Also, these problems have been getting a _lot_ better with recent releases, which are much better at avoiding blocking the UI thread. It's not perfect, but it's not something you see very often either. Let me put it this way: I can't even remember the last time I've had a UI slowdown, and I use FF on various machine with lots of tabs all the time. (Firebug's still really slow, though).

So when you say "some heavy JS usage" what exactly do you mean? Certainly not stuff like google docs/mail/calendar, and they're all heavy on the JS...