On 08/03/2015 10:21 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On 3 August 2015 at 17:51, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
>> I tried very hard today to get FF into the condition you're reporting and
could not. I went on eBay, YouTube, CNN,
mlb.com, NYtimes and a whole bunch of other
places. I had 8 tabs open including Facebook and G+. No issues. But, I also don't
have any addons or extensions to firefox since that isn't my browser of choice.
>
> My FF session usually has 100+ tabs open. Sometimes I do get issues,
> but with sites with lots of scripts doing "smart" things. FF usually
> prompts in such cases to stop the script.
I sometimes go beyond 300 tabs, approaching 500.
This abandoned extension is incredibly useful:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/61ovoc4hzgtm0qf/Suspend-background-tabs-master....
Javascript is disabled for all background tabs, so they won't use CPU time anymore.
This looks interesting. I'll try it out.
Cheers,
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Suvayu
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