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It was horrendously bad. If you had more than 10 tabs open it was painful. I was using it at the time on a relatively high spec machine for the time (Core 2 Quad) and 8GB of ram.

I was so happy when Chrome came out. Over the years I've tried going back to Firefox and I've gone back to either Chrome, Ungoogled Chromium or Brave.

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I was using it on way lower spec machines than that (including a Pentium II machine with 256M of RAM), Firefox handled 10 tabs well at the time.

On Linux though, and blocking ads.

This happened enough that I think it was partially fixed in 3.5.

At the time 3.0 came out I was still in University and every other student I spoke to had the same experience. People also experienced in my first place of work in 2009.

This problem was ultimately fixed with 4.0 when they did something different with how multi-tab worked.

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