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Comment by clumsysmurf | Hacker News Reader

I gave it a few minutes of trial and then disabled it.

With memory prices increasing, many people unable to afford new machines, and web browsers being one of those things that can potentially take a lot of system resources, I wish the Firefox team would prioritize CPU and memory performance of the core engine for users with lots of tabs.

I have stuff like 'Auto tab discard' installed but it seems to break other things, like 'Close Duplicate Tabs'.

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so sad you have to use the surveillance enabled chrome browser now, I feel so sorry for you

Don't feel sad or sorry :) There are other options, like Orion that runs uBo just fine. I haven't used it enough to say either way though.

768 tabs open. Total suspender works great.

Lol, there's enough people out there with hundreds of tabs open that there's clearly a real usecase for it, but I have just never understood this usage model. Feels to me like complaining you get bad gas mileage in your car because you're carrying around 15 years' worth of discarded McDonald's wrappers. The car isn't the problem! :)

Haha - if you read my post above, I detail my setup. I didn't cover usage there. Essentially, in my most used panels, I open a bunch of tabs that may be interesting in the AM, when I designate ~30mins to perusing sites like HN. I dedicate some reading blocks of time later in the day where I actually look at what I opened, usually kill a bunch of low info tabs quickly and maybe read/kill a few big info tabs. Others that I want to dedicate real time to float to the bottom of the list until I have time to read them. It stays fairly evergreen because I am a systematic reader...

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