On 2023-06-03 at 01:41, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 6:10 PM Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote: >> This computer, with 128GB RAM, I regard as far superior to an i9 >> computer with 8GB RAM. >> Refurbished computer profile (with 128GB RAM (that runs about 200 >> windows of Firefox (I have one saved session, with 229 windows, >> and about 3200 tabs), while viewing movies (I also have about 10 >> movies open at present, in Celluloid and SMPlayer), although, at >> present, I have only about 127 Firefox windows open, with 1689 >> tabs): > > Holy cow! :-) No wonder you have 128GB RAM. You will need that much > for that much Firefox. It's a peeve of mine how resource intensive it > is for a browser compared to the competition. Hey, now. I once had a Firefox session (with "restore tabs from previous session" enabled, and about six-to-eight windows) with 5,190 open tabs, and that computer only had 24GB of RAM. ...And it used BarTab, or rather a variant that I maintained myself after the original maintainer decided getting a small subset of that addon's functionality integrated into the upstream browser was sufficient. I'm doing much better now; I've got only 1,491 open tabs, split across eight browser windows, on a machine with 64GB of RAM. (I think I had it down under 1,000 total tabs at one point. I still hope to get it down to a range of 200-500 total tabs; I don't think I'll realistically be comfortable running with fewer than that, given what I use them for.) And all of this is with older Firefox versions, which are considerably more resource-intensive in my experience than newer Firefox is. I may dislike a lot of things about where Mozilla has taken Firefox, but I do prefer to see it criticized for the faults it actually has. Resource-intensive it may be, but unless extra windows increase resource usage far more than extra tabs do, you don't need anything *close* to 128GB for ~1700 Firefox tabs in ~128 Firefox windows. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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