Super Fast Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Testing parameters: Clean installed 32 Bit 7 / Clean installed Firefox / Clean user profiles (with bookmarks imported) Testing Machine: Dual-Core 3.2 GHZ / 4 GB RAM / 160 GB Sata 7,200 RPM HDD Plugins: Ad-Block + When I was using Firefox 17.01 with several groups of tabs open & 423 tabs on one group, it would crash fairly predictably. It would run fine for a while, but when you add say, 20-50 new tabs, a crash would occur. I decided to scrap 17.01 temporarily & test same websites with Firefox 18b5. So far, it seems to be faster, use less RAM, & not crash. Interesting, to say the least. Seems 17.01 does ok with small sets of tabs, but in groups of tabs, it chokes. Glad to find that the 18b5 is doing much better. If anyone else has anything they want to add, feel free! Thought this may be interesting to post, as other users may or may not have experienced the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I don't think many other users have consistant experience with many hundreds of tabs. That being said, I run Nightly as my primary firefox build, and my experiences vary from "this keeps locking up" to "this is working wonderfully." winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted December 29, 2012 Moderators Share Posted December 29, 2012 OK, I just have to ask. I have seen it mentioned before SuperFast that you are a supreme user of tabs. having myself only ever, at most, half a dozen opened tabs, can you enlighten my on what you use 423 tabs for. surely that sheer number makes the tab bar hard to navigate. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee4Joe Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I don't think many other users have consistant experience with many hundreds of tabs. Only when I accidently hit "Open All in Tabs" on my bookmarks folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodles Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 OK, I just have to ask. I have seen it mentioned before SuperFast that you are a supreme user of tabs. having myself only ever, at most, half a dozen opened tabs, can you enlighten my on what you use 423 tabs for. surely that sheer number makes the tab bar hard to navigate. (I, too, would like to know) This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 He has mentioned in the past that they are for some sort of work/project he is working on, the details of which I do not recall being mentioned. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razz Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Super Fast, like mta & nodles, I too would love to know why you use tabs to the Nth. degree I am the same as mta - I may have a max of about 6 tabs at one time. A-Z Freeware Launcher Plus on MajorGeeks A-Z Freeware Launcher Plus on Softpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 There's the question of "How big is your viewable browser window in order to look at what you've opened". It'd be about the length & width of your taskbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted December 29, 2012 Moderators Share Posted December 29, 2012 The most tabs I ever recall ever having open when using FF was perhaps 12 tabs because once they start running off screen and being placed into that drop down area it becomes a chore to deal with them. I however know with FF you can get away having much more tabs open without it adversely affecting system performance when compared to a Chrome-based browser. @Super Fast I am however curious how much RAM you have installed and how much RAM FF is using when you have all those tabs open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted December 29, 2012 Moderators Share Posted December 29, 2012 (edited) EDIT <SIGH> Edited December 29, 2012 by Nergal ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 EDIT <SIGH> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Fast Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 Right now, CPU use varies. 0% to 9% or so. Ramwise, FF takes about 725 MB of my 4 GB. _____ Some of the tabs are background tabs, where I opened under 17.01 & it crashed, so that I had to re-open. Difference so far, under FF18b5 (yes, I know they just released the beta 6 the other day) is that it has not (yet) crashed when I opened those tabs, or chunked 50 or so NEW tabs to the background. Hmmmm... What do I use them for... Sometimes, I look for themes for W7 or W8. In doing so, I might use a deviant art page with themes & d/l a theme by a user. But I know if a user has a good theme, they likely have other util/themes that are equally good. It is not unusual that I should then visit their page, & d/l other off their page (or check out their friends, since if they have good taste in what they do, they usually select friends who have good taste also). What would I use themes for in 7 or 8? Some computers I have are older & do not support 7 Aero. You can get graphics cards that do, but in the sake of experimentation, it is very interesting how cool Royale port to 8 looks on non-aero capable computers. Very much different than the bland default basic that is enabled if your PC does not support Aero. I may have to use it on 8 when I play around with it more, to see how it looks on 8 as well. Might have to find a way to n-lite my 8 to remove things I never use (Such as windows store). It's not that I don't shop online sometimes, but I just don't trust a built in undeletable store icon. (Why is it imperative to have "mandatory" store service?) You can disable the service. I rather just re-do my W8 dvd so that it don't have those things installing in the 1st place. I am likely to not get any apps, as I have most things I need already. So it would be useless on my machine. _____ Other things I use it for, are sometimes when I download new programs, I kick the downloads to background tabs. So I can continue without interruption on the page I am on, & download faster than ever (no return to prior page, then find the download I was at, etc). Sometimes I also have youtube videos open (I play drums, & I crank my stereo so I can jam). There are a lot of things I look up & its faster to open 10-12 tabs, then check them out, rather than open/backspace/open another/backspace etc. I may not always open hundreds of tabs. But in the name of research, downloads, youtubing, & others... I tab out FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I don't know about the rest of you but I'm pretty much tabbed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razz Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 I don't know about the rest of you but I'm pretty much tabbed out. I may not always open hundreds of tabs. But in the name of research, downloads, youtubing, & others... I tab out FF. GO Super Fast, go! A-Z Freeware Launcher Plus on MajorGeeks A-Z Freeware Launcher Plus on Softpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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