Yeah, to anyone resisting leaving Chrome, just do it. This includes the repackaged Chromium browsers too like Opera, Microsoft Edge, Brave, etc.
Google is pushing the button they said they wanted to push for like 15 years now. Time to move back to Firefox. I did it years ago at this point and don’t regret it. I hope they make the Firefox (and it’s relations like Fennec) on Android run better eventually though. Also looking forward to a gecko-based proper port of Firefox to iOS due to new EU laws that told Apple they can’t force their shit. Ublock origin on iOS… It’s all we ask for!
I’ve had to tell a friend for the last 2 years that Brave isn’t what he thinks it is. Most recently about the adblock bullshit. I had to explain to him that it affects all Chrome based browser and reiterated that I’ve been telling him this whole time to switch to Firefox. I hope that 3 unskippable ads before his YouTube meme videos will finally pull him over.
Now if Firefox can figure out how to not shit the bed with 40+tabs open at time, I’ll be happy lol.
Firefox can run fine with a zillion tabs open, it’s just that certain websites start to panic and run tons of javascript if they’re left backgrounded for days (looking at you github). If you open the task manager (shift-escape) you can find and kill these (keeps the tab open, but it’ll say “your tab crashed” until you go to it and refresh it). This allows you to be even more of a tab gremlin.
I’m been using the task manager more just to at least avoid keeping heavy recurse tabs open. Didn’t know you could kill them but let them open. I wonder if you can automate that for like after a certain time has elapsed.
I’m trying desperately to use more bookmarks actually but yeah I have line 10 tabs pinned that are more daily use stuff like email and social media. Then have various tabs for programming, recipes, and games that in def gonna use all today and can’t get rid of them.
I have so many tabs open on my Android mobile Firefox that there’s literally an infinity symbol. I don’t know if I have 120 or 300 open. There’s no way to tell without manually counting. Please help. Performance is usually good though.
I have anywhere between 8 and 20 open on Firefox on my phone. I spend less time on that one so it’s mostly a few old game guides and stuff I eventually send to my computer.
Really want a Firefox fork that’s keyboard driven like Qutebrowser. Webextensions are just way too janky to be practical, they shit out if a page simply doesn’t load.
Yeah, to anyone resisting leaving Chrome, just do it. This includes the repackaged Chromium browsers too like Opera, Microsoft Edge, Brave, etc.
Google is pushing the button they said they wanted to push for like 15 years now. Time to move back to Firefox. I did it years ago at this point and don’t regret it. I hope they make the Firefox (and it’s relations like Fennec) on Android run better eventually though. Also looking forward to a gecko-based proper port of Firefox to iOS due to new EU laws that told Apple they can’t force their shit. Ublock origin on iOS… It’s all we ask for!
I’ve had to tell a friend for the last 2 years that Brave isn’t what he thinks it is. Most recently about the adblock bullshit. I had to explain to him that it affects all Chrome based browser and reiterated that I’ve been telling him this whole time to switch to Firefox. I hope that 3 unskippable ads before his YouTube meme videos will finally pull him over.
Now if Firefox can figure out how to not shit the bed with 40+tabs open at time, I’ll be happy lol.
Firefox can run fine with a zillion tabs open, it’s just that certain websites start to panic and run tons of javascript if they’re left backgrounded for days (looking at you github). If you open the task manager (shift-escape) you can find and kill these (keeps the tab open, but it’ll say “your tab crashed” until you go to it and refresh it). This allows you to be even more of a tab gremlin.
I thought Firefox suspended inactive tabs
I’m been using the task manager more just to at least avoid keeping heavy recurse tabs open. Didn’t know you could kill them but let them open. I wonder if you can automate that for like after a certain time has elapsed.
When you press x, it kills them but keeps them open. It used to close them. They changed it a few months ago, I think?
Super useful thanks!
I start freaking out it I have more than like 3 tabs open. Built in immunity
How can I learn this power? Yeah I noticed that FF runs fine in private mode with a few tabs or in a fresh I stall so I def did this to myself.
Probably a mixture of an undiagnosed compulsion to keep things “clean” mixed with being a boomer and becoming an adult before browser tabs existed.
“Back in my day we only got ONE tab and we LIKED IT!”
And I used to make fun of people who would use one tab and just close our the entire browser to use a “new tab” lol
Do you need 40+ tabs available all the times? Otherwise use Auto Tab Discard.
This is from someone with tabs opened “a little bit” higher than 40.
I’m trying desperately to use more bookmarks actually but yeah I have line 10 tabs pinned that are more daily use stuff like email and social media. Then have various tabs for programming, recipes, and games that in def gonna use all today and can’t get rid of them.
I have so many tabs open on my Android mobile Firefox that there’s literally an infinity symbol. I don’t know if I have 120 or 300 open. There’s no way to tell without manually counting. Please help. Performance is usually good though.
I have anywhere between 8 and 20 open on Firefox on my phone. I spend less time on that one so it’s mostly a few old game guides and stuff I eventually send to my computer.
Really want a Firefox fork that’s keyboard driven like Qutebrowser. Webextensions are just way too janky to be practical, they shit out if a page simply doesn’t load.