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by thelukester 4742 days ago
matthiasv, I don't know what your secret is, only 1 tab open in 1 window open at time, JS disabled, or what, but this is a very real issue. I have Firefox installed on all 4 of my machines, work desktop, home desktop, laptop, and a netbook. 2 of which are fresh installs. On all 4 when I visit multiple HTML5 heavy sites, FF's UI gets unresponsive. Chrome and newer versions of IE do not suffer from this, and I'm pretty sure it comes from FF running in a single process.

Chrome and IE have their issues too, like thrashing memory a lot sooner than FF, which is why FF is still the default browser on my laptop and netbook despite its unresponsive UI under heavy load.