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Slimebeast on 25 October 2016
Farmageddon said:
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?

lol

No, it's not what you're thinking of.

"did it not occur", "accumulated hundreds of tabs" lol... well, I didn't realize it was that many until I counted them. I thought it was like 40 or 50, not 425.



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Slimebeast on 25 October 2016
Turkish 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?

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!

Finally somebody who understands! 435!!

"I'm cutting down", "hoping to reach".



Slimebeast on 25 October 2016
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?!



ebw on 03 November 2016
Slimebeast said:
Zkuq said:

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?

 

You're using Flash in more tabs than you can keep track of?  And you haven't restarted since at least August?  There's already been 3 critical vulnerabilities in Flash disclosed since September, and you haven't restarted your browser.  When's the last time you updated Flash?  You seem to be asking for a virus.



HelloTM on 07 November 2016

i don't know



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Slimebeast on 08 November 2016

The catastrophe has happened!

It seems some website was able to open a pop-up window or something despite me having Adblock on at all times, because the next time I opened Firefox and clicked on "Restore previous session" it turned up completely empty. All my ~300 tabs were gone!! (I had reduced the number of tabs quite a lot since the my last post in this thread)

Damn it, so much work lost. So much valuable information completely gone.

This happened less than a week ago. I have already worked myself up to 135 open tabs again.



WC4Life on 08 November 2016
Slimebeast said:
The catastrophe has happened!

It seems some website was able to open a pop-up window or something despite me having Adblock on at all times, because the next time I opened Firefox and clicked on "Restore previous session" it turned up completely empty. All my ~300 tabs were gone!! (I had reduced the number of tabs quite a lot since the my last post in this thread)

Damn it, so much work lost. So much valuable information completely gone.

This happened less than a week ago. I have already worked myself up to 135 open tabs again.

I can't believe you are doing it again. How did you manage when tabs didn't exist?



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Slimebeast on 08 November 2016
SpokenTruth said:
Slimebeast said:
The catastrophe has happened!

It seems some website was able to open a pop-up window or something despite me having Adblock on at all times, because the next time I opened Firefox and clicked on "Restore previous session" it turned up completely empty. All my ~300 tabs were gone!! (I had reduced the number of tabs quite a lot since the my last post in this thread)

Damn it, so much work lost. So much valuable information completely gone.

This happened less than a week ago. I have already worked myself up to 135 open tabs again.

Why didn't you right click a tab and bookmark them all as I suggested?

Damn it! I guess I forgot? I bookmarked a lot of them though, but one by one. What should I call the folder if I bookmark them all by right clicking?



silvergunner on 09 November 2016

Unlike Chrome, Firefox doesn't load each tab in a separate process/thread. Loading a heavy extension or plugin (such as Flash) in one tab can freeze and/or slow down the whole browser.



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SamLeheny on 09 November 2016

I have Chrome and Firefox installed. Every few months whichever I'm using will either get slow or scripts will start falling over, then I switch to the other until a few months later, rinse, repeat.