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The worst is when someone is sharing their screen in zoom and then complaining about the lag in Chrome, while you can see the 80+ tabs… I even mentioned it to someone once but did she close them? No. Of course not.
Honestly ... I think that's a myth. I have 200+ FF Nightly tabs open, and I did have up to five tab groups with 100+ tabs each, as well as dozens of Addons, including the notoriously laggy Dark Reader, and I don't notice any slowdown I wouldn't call acceptable - just the usual suspects (Teams and google apps) are crap, but that's just incompatibility with standards on their part. And I don't have any crazy PC or something, just a pretty old 5 2600 and for the most part 16 GB Ram (which did get pretty tight with Minecraft, Idea and FF running), now 32 GB Detotaded Wam.
Both Firefox (see about:unloads) & Chromium have a feature to unload old tabs when running low on memory. On session restore all tabs start unloaded
Yep. I even have an extension to manually unload tabs/tab groups. That's why I wonder why even IT people say more tabs = worse performance.
I didn't realize Dark Reader was laggy or known to be laggy but it makes sense. It doesn't matter in any case, you'd have to pry it from my cold dead eyes
Well it does alter the whole website, in consideration of other parts of the website, which means it fully parses it. Therefore a website is basically handled two or three times before it's finally displayed.
only effect I have is on startup and it using a lot of memory
Can't you just.... Close them? Why you you need 200 tabs? You do know about bookmarks right?
Bookmarks, do you have any idea how much more time it takes to delete a bookmark
It's a right click and delete. I keep a folder called tmp for exactly this reason. I really don't understand why people do it but man it is infuriating watching someone do it. Maybe it's a bit of ocd tendencies but I absolutely hate it.
I just shove the tabs in a seperate window and let them eat a couple gigs of RAM, webpages need a little snack sometimes.
Because they're all active projects, and most of them are open "just in case I need that exact piece of information again".