Firefox rot/How many tabs do you open?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-03-27 04:17am

Anyone notice Firefox slowing down over time? I occasionally have to nuke my profile directory- rather annoying.

As an aside, how many simultaneous tabs do you usually have open? Currently I have 17...

Also, anyone notice how FF/Linux is vastly slower on Linux? Every time I view a web page that has fixed backgrounds, scrolling gets jerky. Opera does better, but is still laggy, although it's other performance is still decent.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-03-27 04:40am

Hah, almost never more than four.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-03-27 07:14am

I have 20 tabs open right now, but usually around 10.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2005-03-27 07:33am

Not really. My main problem with Firefox comes when it freezes and I have to kill it. Loading the first webpage after restarting it takes an age.

Usually about 6 tabs.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2005-03-27 08:16am

Before getting a tab extention: About seven.

After: Uh, let me count...about 14. The tab extention I'm using now lets me move them around and has Firefox automatically save them as they are whenever I close the browser.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-03-27 10:46am

I usually have at least four at any given time.

JediToren · Post by **JediToren** » 2005-03-27 11:44am

I usually have about six to eight tabs open but I've had a dozen or more at once for several hours without problems. I've never had it slow down over time, and I usually keep Firefox running for days at a time.

I do have that problem with Konquerer, which is one of the reasons I switched to Firefox (AdBlocker was also a factor in that decision, as well as the fact that there are some sites that don't work very well in Konquerer). When I regularly surfed with Konquerer I would find that the browser would become less responsive the longer I ran it without closing it and re-opening it.

I also don't find that it is slower or less stable on Linux compared to the Windblows version, as I have a Windblows 2000 installation and it runs about the same on that. Although I rarely boot into Winblows anymore and when I do it is usually to play a game and I almost never acccess the web from that OS, so I could be wrong.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-03-27 12:54pm

Haven't noticed any slowdowns. Then again I rarely have more than 5-6 tabs open unless I'm searching for porn.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2005-03-27 01:56pm

You people make me feel un-nerdy. I usually just keep 1 or 2 tabs open at the same time. I've gone up to about thirty or so, but I don't do that often.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-03-27 02:07pm

Pu-239 wrote:Anyone notice Firefox slowing down over time? I occasionally have to nuke my profile directory- rather annoying.

I always having my FF crashed when opening too much tabs. It happens fewer when starting FF in 'safe mode', though.

Never suffered such crash when using Opera, but other browser is getting slower when I open to many tabs in OP.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-03-27 02:14pm

Generally about 8 tabs, but right now its at 22.

All SDN though, other sites are in diff windows. And just for reference, I don't use Firefox, but standard Mozilla.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-03-27 02:50pm

Eh, I've had memory-leak problems with Firefox in the past. Next time you get slowdown, open up the task manager and see how much memory the firefox.exe process is taking up?

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2005-03-27 03:11pm

Firefox has never developed a rot, in my case at least.

My problems with it are the memory and processor usage. Right now it's at 59.4 megs taken with two tabs open.

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2005-03-27 06:46pm

I used to regularly have dozens open at a time. However, I don't do that much anymore.

While I generally like Firefox, I do have three problems.
1) Sometimes, after starting the program, after I type in the first URL, it stops responding for a minute or two.
2) It can run really slow at times. (Particularly when using a single very large page).
3) The download manager doesn't seem to work for me. I've used multiple different version of Mozilla/Firefox on multiple computers, on multiple different networks. And on each of then, when I try to download a file, it's corrupt about 50% of the time. Therefore, I typically use IE or GetRight to download files.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-03-27 08:13pm

White Haven wrote:Eh, I've had memory-leak problems with Firefox in the past. Next time you get slowdown, open up the task manager and see how much memory the firefox.exe process is taking up?

Erm... running Linux- and I have plenty of RAM (not even full)- problem appears CPU bound. Almost every GUI app on Linux seems to suck down CPU like no tomorrow,.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2005-03-28 12:36am

I do not like browser tabs, and greatly prefer to have separate windows for each webpage, as it makes navigation between them much quicker.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-03-28 01:01am

I use seperate windows. 1 or 2 for yahoo launch music, 0-6 for messengers, and 1-2 for browsing.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-03-28 02:05am

I usually have two. I have more open when on some message boards, or checking multiple webcomics.

I only have a ton of tabs open if i'm looking at a large series of pictures (read: porn).

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-03-28 03:46am

1-6 in Opera, but if it's porn time easily 100+.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-03-28 07:51am

often more than 13. never noticed a slowdown.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-03-28 08:22am

HemlockGrey wrote:1-6 in Opera, but if it's porn time easily 100+.

and I was feeling bad at having 20 open.

Azazel · Post by **Azazel** » 2005-03-28 10:16am

usually only 2-3.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2005-03-28 10:40am

1-3 usually, but first thing in the morning I open all my webcomics as tabs so i can hit them all at once. That's about 15 comics, plus the morning paper and CNN.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-28 10:47am

I keep normally only one tab open (and I use regural Mozilla(don't have Firefox), but I will will open more if I need to.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-03-28 10:54am

never noticed any slowdown when i run FF. though typically i have no less than 5 tabs open at any given time.

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