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by jeltz 4639 days ago
I am addicted to tabs and have 260 tabs (yes, I have a problem) open and running smoothly in Firefox. That was not possible in Chromium last time I used it.

Firefox currently uses about 3GB memory, which means I have plenty of memory left on my computer. So I do not think memory usage in the general case is so bad for Firefox and neither is scalability or performance. The problem Firefox historically has had and still to a degree has is lack of responsiveness.
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com2kid 4638 days ago
My issue is the lack of a properly support x64 build of Firefox.

I hit the 3GB limit pretty much daily, FF crashes, I start it up again, back come my 200 tabs, thankfully not all loaded at once!

I'll admit I know the cause of the problem, Reddit Enhancement Suite, but I'd rather have FF crash daily than go without RES.

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sergiosgc 4638 days ago
What kind of usage pattern leads to 260 tabs? It's a genuine question, don't take it the wrong way.

You can't possibly have your attention spread over a hundred sites at a time. Are you using them as bookmarks?

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