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Slimebeast on 25 October 2016
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SpokenTruth said:
Slimebeast said:

These 425 tabs were built when I was on vacation in August and had lots of time to browse and research interesting stuff.

This is stressing me out. I come home after a long day of work and first thing I do I have to battle Firefox to even read the latest from VGC.  At least it's comforting to hear that it may not be viruses causing the slowdown! I'm completely without virus protection, although I believe Windows 10 inherently is a strong virus protection. A virus would devastate me.

Actually sometimes I have started all over. I just start and close Firefox twice and then my "latest session" becomes completely wiped.

But now I have so much information I've built and I risk losing if I do that. I would not just feel empty if I wiped all this, I would get huge anxiety because I missed out on something important.

Right click one tab, then click "bookmark all tabs".  That way you won't lose any of your work.

 

Slimebeast said:

Thank you for the attempt to help! But when I go to "help" (actually in my language it's called "open menu") and then click on "Add-ons" it just opens a new but completely empty tab.

Could you give better advice please?

That's how it should be working.  See if you can Google those directions in your language in case it has different menu options.

Oh, I can bookmark all tabs? That's pretty cool!

 

Trunkin said:
Firefox does not seem to handle hordes of tabs as well as Chromw does. In FF I start to take performance hits when I reach more than 15 tabs. I would highly rexonmend you simply create a bookmark folder titled "recent tabs" or something like that, save all your bookmarks to that folder, and read them from there, deleting them as yoy go through them. Also, if you dont have a firefox account, get one. That way your bookmarks will be backed up tp the cloud, so not only will you not have to worry about losing them, but also you'll be able to access them from Firefox on your phone or tablet.

Its also a good idea, if you're opening a lot of new tabs, to open them in read only mode. You can always switch back when youre ready to read them.

Good. "recent tabs" sounds reasoable actually.

But what does "read only mode" mean when opening tabs? And what would that solve?

SegataSanshiro said:
2 things. Use Bookmarks & a add on called super start.

What's super start?

zero129 said:
That time when you use tabs as bookmarks..
Ok i cant ever remember a that time for me, but thats your main problem lol.

Yes, that time. I thought everybody did that though lol

Zkuq said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Did you know a great man once said: if you have too many tabs, press ctrl W?

I am sure its less due to firefox and more due to your ram.

Or, in this case, hold Ctrl+W instead of just pressing it.

Slimebeast said:

And you can't read it all at once, you simply must keep the tabs opened so you can read them later.

I think there's addons for saving stuff for reading later. Or you could bookmark them, but you said you didn't like it. At any rate, that's a huge amount of stuff. You absolutely sure you need to read all of them? I mean, that's going to take ages. If you found most of them while on vacation and couldn't read them back then despite probably having a lot of time, when do you intend to actually have time to read them?

Anyway, one potential issue is Flash. Firefox seems to die quite easily due to Flash, and especially some video/streaming services using Flash seem to have a memory leak in Firefox. Twitch, for example, seems to leak memory for me on Firefox, which makes everything unbearably slow after an hour or so. If you have a lot of Flash tabs open, it's almost certainly causing problems for you. Have you checked how much your Firefox is using RAM? From the Task Manager?

It's certainly a huge amount of stuff, and yes it's gonna take ages lol

I have checked RAM usage from Task manager and it's not much. Usually something like 3.5 GBs. So maybe it has more to do with Flash usage like you describe?

 

ebw said:
Slimebeast said:

Actually sometimes I have started all over. I just start and close Firefox twice and then my "latest session" becomes completely wiped.

But now I have so much information I've built and I risk losing if I do that. I would not just feel empty if I wiped all this, I would get huge anxiety because I missed out on something important.

You seriously need a browser intervention.  Open tabs are not reliable for use as a persistent store, so you are living in a constant state of uncertainty and peril.  It's like saying "I have thousands of Microsoft Word documents open and I haven't saved any of them because I hate looking for files."  JUST LEARN TO USE BOOKMARKS!

"a browser intervention"

I'm living in a constant state of uncertainty, I know right?!