Comment by inertiatic
1 year ago
I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.
1 year ago
I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.
I was using Firefox exclusively for years, but when I sold my Macbook and bought a Thinkpad and installed Linux on it, I grew pretty annoyed by Firefox.
Specifically, I couldn't view my 360 videos or photos on Google Images or Immich at anywhere near acceptable performance. The videos, recorded at 30fps, would get maybe 5fps. This was weird, because I have a fairly beefy laptop, it should be able to handle these videos just fine (especially since my iPhone handled it just fine).
After a bit of debugging, it appears that there's a bug in how it's writing for the shader cache, and as such there was no hardware acceleration. I found a bug filed about my issue [1], and I didn't really feel like trying to fix it, because I didn't want to mess with Mesa drivers. I just installed Chromium and that's what I'm using right now, and it worked with my 360 videos and photos absolutely fine.
I want Firefox to succeed, but that really left a bad taste in my mouth; it's not like it's weird to want my browser to be hardware accelerated.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1921742 Looks like it might be fixed now, or at least they figured out it was an issue with Mesa
I use Firefox as my main browser and having "tens of tabs open" is something I do and there's zero issues with that.
I regularly have 200+ tabs open in FF, no idea what the parent is talking about.
Right now I'm at 181 and it's still buttery smooth.
Goodness just install a tab session manager.
How big is your monitor? I can only see about 10-15 tabs on my 4k monitor before Firefox starts scrolling them off the screen. I regularly have 2-3x that on Chrome before tabs stop showing up.
I have 54 tabs open right now. The Sideberry extension lets you view them in the left sidebar. They're nested so that collapsing a root tab will also collapse all child tabs. There are also super tabs (Sideberry calls them "Tabs panels") so you can switch between entire groups of tabs.
1,740 tabs open right now on my wife's Firefox and it seems to be operating just fine. Sounds like something's wrong with your Firefox. I recommend a refresh which can be found under about:support
what the hell is she doing with 1740 tabs ? :)
10, 20, even 30 i can understand. More is the equivalent of forgetting to empty the kitchen trash can and still filling it until the smell is horrible.
someone got to tell her there is a cross on the right to close the tab.
751 tabs open right now and growing.
Firefox copes fine. Me? Not so much (:
751 tabs open is just ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Use some kind of tab session manager addon, and start organizing things - no need to have them all open concurrently.
757 now.
I used to bookmark everything into Diigo. Then their Firefox extension stopped working... and I haven't got a cross-platform, cross-browser process up and running again.
Is there a tab session manager that does that, and lets me send tabs from my current session to another session? E.g. I'm on my "Writing C for a hobby" session and quickly search for something cooking related, and then need to send that to my cooking session?
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I use the Tab Groups Addon on Chrome.
Firefox works great with dozens of open tabs. The only thing Chrome has going for it is tab groups. Firefox has Tab Style Tree, which is a decent substitute.
Tab groups landed in Firefox Nightly 3 months ago,[1] I‘d expect them pretty soon in the release version.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187
Oh, amazing! Thanks for sharing
I have no problem with hundreds of tabs on Firefox.
There is a "tab count" extension. Install it only if you want to learn some awful truths about yourself.
You don't need an extension. Right-click on a tab and "Select All Tabs". Right-click again and it has the option "Close 1,122 Tabs". Your number may be smaller.
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I keep 100s of tabs open for months in Firefox. Chromium regulaly crashes after about 10-20.
I constantly have way more than that open. On mobile it's also over 100 tabs.
Surely this is hyperbole? I usually have hundreds of tabs open on firefox.
What? Why? That's me, I use FF.
You can't see all 50-70 tabs on a normal 27" monitor; Chrome will squish them almost indefinitely, and Firefox forces a large minimum tab width that makes the tab bar scroll forever and then you forget half the tabs you have going and everything's bad. I tried to switch and stopped because of this. I'll hang on until ubo really stops working, I guess, and then try to figure something else out.
There's a alternative: the dropdown menu with all tabs.
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