I use The Great Suspender extension extension in Chrome to suspend background tabs. That frees up resources being consumed by those tabs. There are similar add-ons for Firefox. Regards, Clifford Ilkay On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2017-09-30 03:15 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
… in the past have had up to 18 windows open and from 3 to 50+ tabs on any one window.
Could one do useful work with that many pages open at once? Each page/tab is effectively a little VM, so you've got hundreds of “users” on your system. If just one of those tabs does an image carousel (like many news or sales sites), it'll use most of a core to do so, even if hidden.
I thought I had problems with one tab out of 10 or so in Firefox crashing and turning this i7 into a mini space heater, but clearly I ain't seen nothing yet …
cheers, Stewart
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