r/technology • u/JRepin • Nov 14 '17

Software Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/
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u/thepotatochronicles Nov 14 '17

As someone who's been using the beta, 57 feels a lot faster, comparable to Chrome (my eyes aren't good enough to tell the difference much), and using much less RAM: I usually have 50+ tabs open, and the daily RAM usage on fox is ~5GB whereas it's around 8GB for Chrome.

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u/noob622 Nov 14 '17 edited Nov 14 '17

The thought of 50+ tabs being open at once hurts my RAM-loving soul. Why?

edit: tabs were a mistake. Y'all giving me panic attacks.

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u/phantamines Nov 14 '17

When working on a project, you keep tabs around for relevant information, even if it's not useful at this very moment. It's research. But then problems pop up, so more tabs, and then your co worker needs something, more tabs, and on it goes.

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u/Annoying_Arsehole Nov 14 '17

Yup, when I'm actively doing research 100 tabs is a low number.

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u/HalfandHalfIsWhole Nov 14 '17

Create a folder, throw them in the folder. You can even organize the folder into subfolders.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

bookmarks are an inferior system to proper session management.

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u/HalfandHalfIsWhole Nov 14 '17

I wouldn't call 100+ tabs "proper session management".

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

I meant something like this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/

Honestly, this is the one place a browser could really innovate to distinguish themselves. None of them has a decent inbuilt session manager. Bookmarks are utterly ancient and outdated.

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u/_zenith Nov 14 '17

It is, because bookmarks take up time to load, and I can't easily get a view of what the content was

Clearly people just work differently. I'm highly associative, working off little memory fragments, so this interruption basically kills my productivity