From: Michael Hill via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 10:04 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk < talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Nouveau seems to be good enough now (but I no longer stress it with a million FireFox tabs).
I meant to ask, is this because of Nouveau improvements, a different tab strategy, or an alternative to Firefox?
I don't know. I still use Firefox. I do have a lot fewer tabs. That's because this machine is now very secondary. It is no longer my main desktop. Nouveau was crashy for the several times I tried it over the 13 years years. Nouveau is maintained, so relevant bugs might have been fixed. The "legacy" proprietary Nvidia driver is not maintained and it won't work with Wayland. I wonder whether the video RAM might have filled up with all my tabs. If compression were implemented (as is done in the proprietary driver) maybe this limitation would be pushed out.