Comment by nine_k
3 years ago
I have a hundred tabs open in my Firefox. They are structured by Tree Style Tab, and most of them are offloaded by Auto Tab Discard.
This gives me a way to instantly switch between contexts (with a small delay if a tab has to be reinstated from cache). This is how bookmarks should really work.
This us why Firefox is not the biggest memory hog on my system. Most of the RAM is consumed by language servers and Emacs.
Indeed, tab-based navigation has less friction, no need to recreate some other order in another UI, and offloading should deal with resource use (workspaces in Vivaldi also helped reduce the clutter a lot along with tab groups)
I wish Android Firefox was as well behaved, beyond a certain amount of tabs new ones don't really load until I shut some, it's been like that for years, on different phoned and different android versions. The amount I can keep open seems to increase as phones get better.