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Comment by JoshMnem

8 years ago

You might want to try it again. I have over 80 Firefox tabs open in multiple windows, multiple containers, and two Firefox profiles. It's still extremely fast.

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dagenix  8 years ago

Last time I tried Firefox, a few months ago, tab switching was painfully slow as compared to Chrome. I intend to give it another chance soon, though.

  • cerberusss  8 years ago

    What about a hardware upgrade?

    • dagenix  8 years ago

      Lol - no. My computer isn't that old. Chrome switches tabs instantly. Firefox doesn't. I'm not going to buy a new computer to find out if Firefox will then switch tabs faster. Also, I've read similar complaints from others. Maybe it's faster now - I dunno. When Firefox's tab switching is faster, I'll give switching another go.

bogomipz  8 years ago

Are you using any plugins to achieve this number of open tabs and and still have good performance?

  • JoshMnem  8 years ago

    It appears to work fine even without extensions (Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox 62), but I have some garbage-blocking extensions installed.

    In my main Firefox profile, I use umatrix[1] to browse the WWW with all CSS and JS turned off by default, enabling them only when needed. Reader mode makes most articles readable with a single click.

    Firefox's built-in privacy protection is also enabled.

    If a website doesn't work with my settings, it takes about the same time to override the CSS/JS settings than the difference between an unblocked page load and a blocked page load. Pages load much faster in general, so it's a net gain in free time.

    I also use Stylus[2] to turn off all CSS animation and add custom styling to websites.

    [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

    [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

    • bogomipz  8 years ago

      Thanks. I'm also a fan of umatrix.

      I'n curious why you disable CSS, obviously I understand why you would want to turn of JS. Is this part of the override for Stylus to work? It didn't look like it from the link.