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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok right here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources

“Close tabs that use too many system resources Some websites use scripts that use a lot of memory and/or CPU to keep them up to date, such as online mail client pages. If these scripts are not optimized, they can lead to the use of too many system resources. You can see which tabs are using the most system resources by opening the Firefox Task Manager (about:processes page). If you do not need these tabs open all the time, you can close them to reduce system resources usage.”

FF is rock solid and they do tell you to limit your tabs.

You are complaining about what is at best an edge case scenario causing an issue while being fine with sucking up the multitude of problems that chrome has because you are too stubborn to organize your browser.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a "if you're having problems" not a "This is the intended limit"

Hell it doesn't even say how many tabs they intended to support. This could very well fall into an optimization issue. Which you know, could improve things for everyone including potential users who may want to jump to firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes because computers and their capabilities vary immensely. How could they know what your pc is capable of versus someone else’s?

This exactly explains that there are limits to the amount of tabs a system can handle. 300+ is not a normal amount for any system and definitely falls outside of normal use case testing.

The optimization issue is you and op not using your brains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

limits that they're not exhibiting in other browser software.

I'm kindof shocked you still can't see the issue there. That they're not pulling this case out of thin air but rather it's how they used their browser previously.

I mean maybe we just want to say Chromium has better tab management under the hood. Or we can see if something can be improved. Especially because as hardware improves and more users are enabled to being able to open more tabs this should become more glaring, not less.