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 < [email protected]> 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 > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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