1819286 - Firefox slows down abysmally after a week or so, having hundreds of tabs open (thousands of tabs in total)
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NEW (davidp99) in Core - Widget: Win32. Last updated 2024-11-12.

Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

    • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      9 days ago

      Lol I open them to look at later, and I also open lots songs on youtube to listen to and switch between songs rather than reopen the songs over and over I just keep it open.

      • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Oh, the 20 tabs thing is perfectly reasonable. But I’m one of those crazy people who completely shuts down his computer every night, including closing my browser. Been using computers for too many years to trust a browser to not leak memory.

      • homicidalrobot@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        You can bookmark webpages to come back to later and even organize them in trees by category. You can ceeate a playlist of songs from youtube and import it to a service with no ads like piped, then shuffle it. If you’re willing to put up with 30+ open tabs these are much less time consuming than scrolling through the default way it situates tabs, AND there aren’t 30 open tabs sucking your resources.

        If you already knew all this, I’m almost sorry.

        • lemming@sh.itjust.works
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          9 days ago

          Personally, if I bookmark something, the odds of ever getting back to it are very, very low, and so are the odds of deleting obsolete bookmarks of unread news etc. But the songs tips are great, I’ll have to look into it, thank you!

          And 30 tabs is very tame.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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          9 days ago

          I’m almost sorry

          Hahahahaha oh boy the comments here today are great!

          (I’m one of those who never reboots, never closes Firefox).

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, I get twitchy when I have more than about ten tabs open. My senior regularly has thousands, across multiple browser windows. There are two types of people.

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      I have multiple Firefox windows with around 1-1.5k tabs on each, and they have been opened (and re opened) since about a year.
      I ❤️ tabs, they make me feel all warm on the inside