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Rab on 25 October 2016
Slimebeast said:

My web browser slows down all the time. I click on a link, video, tab or a thing and get this "loading icon" and sometimes have to wait 30-60 seconds before it reacts. Sometimes I'm given an error message "svarar inte" which in English means something like "doesn't respond". I often have to close the whole browser down and restart which is a process of 3 minutes before it's up and running again.

Even if I restart the browser it's usually slow, and at least very quickly becomes slow.

Does it matter that I have 425 tabs open in the browser? Note that only a fraction of them are activated at any given time if you understand what I mean. How many tabs do you guys keep open usually? I need to do it this way because if I make the pages into "bookmarks" instead, I simply can't find them when I want to. I hate bookmarks, I never find what I want.

It shouldn't be any problem with a modern, powerful computer and 16GB RAM, right?

How do I know that it's not viruses causing this slowdown? Is Windows 10 inherent virus protection enuff for protection when normal browsing (no porno sites)? Is there a good free and fast virus checker program I can get to check if I have viruses?

Check if steam games are updating, pause the update if they are, and bingo!

 

Also here you go https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/max-tabs/ 



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Farmageddon on 25 October 2016
Slimebeast said:

 

But how can you guys have so little tabs? What about all the subjects you are reading about?

Whenever you go to VGC and check out what interesting threads have been created since yesterday that's like 8 new tabs opened right there.

And then you have your other gaming news, tech sites, world news, sports, politics, religion, history, wikipedia, YouTube, blogs, movies, special subjects.

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

"Special subjects"

Also, did it not occur to you at some point as you accumulated hundreds of tabs that this is simply not sustainable?



Turkish on 25 October 2016
Slimebeast said:

My web browser slows down all the time. I click on a link, video, tab or a thing and get this "loading icon" and sometimes have to wait 30-60 seconds before it reacts. Sometimes I'm given an error message "svarar inte" which in English means something like "doesn't respond". I often have to close the whole browser down and restart which is a process of 3 minutes before it's up and running again.

Even if I restart the browser it's usually slow, and at least very quickly becomes slow.

Does it matter that I have 425 tabs open in the browser? Note that only a fraction of them are activated at any given time if you understand what I mean. How many tabs do you guys keep open usually? I need to do it this way because if I make the pages into "bookmarks" instead, I simply can't find them when I want to. I hate bookmarks, I never find what I want.

It shouldn't be any problem with a modern, powerful computer and 16GB RAM, right?

How do I know that it's not viruses causing this slowdown? Is Windows 10 inherent virus protection enuff for protection when normal browsing (no porno sites)? Is there a good free and fast virus checker program I can get to check if I have viruses?

Yeah it's the tabs.

Coincidentally I have over 435 tabs open now, it's slow as hell especially with youtube. I just watch them on Chrome.

Chrome isnt an alternative though, it has huge memory leaks.

Im just cutting down on the tabs for now, hoping to reach 300 by the end of the month!



ebw on 25 October 2016
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!



Zkuq on 25 October 2016
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?



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SegataSanshiro on 25 October 2016

Don't have so many tabs open. That take sup your ram dude. I have 16GB of ram and 425 would even slow this down. I never have more than 6 open at a time. Also even if not using those tabs they are still using bandwidth on your internet so it's bound to slow down or even halt. This is the kind of stuff people in IT want to break something over.



Ljink96 on 25 October 2016

I recently switched to Chrome. I used Fire Fox for about 8 years and now it sucks.



SegataSanshiro on 25 October 2016

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



Trunkin on 25 October 2016

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.



Slimebeast on 25 October 2016
Rab said:
Slimebeast said:

My web browser slows down all the time. I click on a link, video, tab or a thing and get this "loading icon" and sometimes have to wait 30-60 seconds before it reacts. Sometimes I'm given an error message "svarar inte" which in English means something like "doesn't respond". I often have to close the whole browser down and restart which is a process of 3 minutes before it's up and running again.

Even if I restart the browser it's usually slow, and at least very quickly becomes slow.

Does it matter that I have 425 tabs open in the browser? Note that only a fraction of them are activated at any given time if you understand what I mean. How many tabs do you guys keep open usually? I need to do it this way because if I make the pages into "bookmarks" instead, I simply can't find them when I want to. I hate bookmarks, I never find what I want.

It shouldn't be any problem with a modern, powerful computer and 16GB RAM, right?

How do I know that it's not viruses causing this slowdown? Is Windows 10 inherent virus protection enuff for protection when normal browsing (no porno sites)? Is there a good free and fast virus checker program I can get to check if I have viruses?

Check if steam games are updating, pause the update if they are, and bingo!

 

Also here you go https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/max-tabs/ 

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