On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:30 PM o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings > > Question re: Firefox behavior on a clean shutdown and reboot. > > Firefox is set to reload previous pages and tabs upon a restart. > My system is LOADED with memory - - - - 64 GB in fact. > Am also running multi-gpu and wanting to run with all 5 of my monitors but > nouveau isn't up to running the 4k monitor yet! I use a large number of > virtual desktops as well. > As a result I get grumpy when programs don't allow me to work using my > particular system. > I will admit that I can get to over 25 pages open - - - I start a page for > every topic I'm looking at. > That's a page for every interest or every function (online > tools/activities). There also tends to get to be a lot of tabs. > I work had at keeping to under 40 to 50 tabs per age but there are usually > a few pages where the number of tabs goes nuts. > Because nouveau really doesn't like functioning with my setup (proprietary > code is far worse!!! nvidia hates multi-gpu now although they didn't when I > set up the system!) so system restarts are forced upon me far more often > that I would like. Because of the forced system restarts I get to task > firefox-esr in setting up the way it was before the system went down. > > Are there hard limits that force Firefox to not renew pages as they were > (so more than xx number of pages)? > Are there hard limits that force Firefox to not renew 'a' page (I've had > this happen where one page doesn't renew but all the rest do)? > If there are no 'hard' limits (programmed in per se) are there amounts of > pages or tabs or perhaps tabs/page or something else from this stew that > greater than xx tabs or yy pages or even a small number of pages having > more than xy tabs where such activity results in firefox not restarting as > it is listed to do so (restart the pages and tabs present upon shutdown) is > considered 'usual'? > I am trying to find parameters where I'm not faced with what I have right > now. > There were about 30 odd different pages and from 15 to who knows how many > tabs per page. Some tabs were held as I was working on business deals. > Re-establishing this amount of stuff is a royal pita. If I know that any > behavior over a level described as 'x' is dangerous then I can work hard to > stay under those levels. > > Please advise > (edited to add subject - - - argh!)
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