Firefox 27.0

[Bludd]

Chrome is using 10GB memory.

wow

 

[Raqia]

I once ran an x64 Firefox on my PC, with 3GB RAM and 2GB swap (that was from a live USB, swap was two partitions on two different hard drives). It was thus able to take over every system resource. (I have a bit of a tab hoarding problem but sometimes the sites are extremely heavy). Linux behaves "interestingly" when you run out of swap, I'll maybe call it "meta-swapping". The mouse cursor gets freezing but somehow it still works. Killing plugin-container is useful when you manage to do it.

So, Firefox 32bit is almost a feature. Note that 32bit Chromium is able to use all my memory and swap, and does it earlier.
My bro has a PC with crazy RAM, 32GB (a store once fucked up on pricing). He loads about a 100 tabs or two and then, Chrome is using 10GB memory.

That's my setup too, I've found 32 GB of ram (DDR3-1600 which only cost a total of $130 at the beginning of 2013) and the Hyperthreading in my i7 3770k are actually useful things. I've started hoarding tabs now that Chrome lets me and it pretty consistently crashes once I'm up around 200 tabs, taking Process Explorer with it. When I launch chrome again and restore all my tabs (so I can save them with a plugin), it's noticeably faster with Hyperthreading over my old i5 2500k.

It's also usually around when physical memory runs out or one of the threads starts to have a virtual size of about 3GB that my system crashes. I could probably disable my ram-drive to make it happy at 250-300 tabs, but I really hope 64 bit Chrome with an optimized V8 launches soon. Right now Chrome has 120 tabs open and takes up 8.4 GB.

 

[zed]

Why on earth have so many tabs open?
Take a screenshot, Im curious how it looks like 200 tabs
I think the most I have is perhaps 20, over that then they become too small to see what they are, thus usability is lessened)

 

[Blazkowicz]

Raqia, it feels like that old silly Borg vs Microsoft story
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=BorgVsWindows

With Firefox, there's a minimum tab width so stuff stays readable. The tab bar is scrollable then.

 

[Raqia]

It's not that impressive since I keep them across multiple windows, each with related content. I also start a new windows once it starts hiding each tab's icon. It makes a lot of sense for me to open these tabs as I find it's much easier to do research and be able to find sources with groups of sites open at once in a window instead of relying on links you can't find or forget after a few jumps. Once in a while, I save using "Session Buddy" and just purge everything. It's easier to search that plugin's history than Chrome's native history which is surprisingly horrible. "Better History" isn't bad and I use it quite a bit too, but it doesn't keep my tab groupings by windows in tact which is meaningful to me.

One of Chrome's most useful recent updates displays an icon in any tab making noise; this is a Godsend for me. I just wish they ported V8 to x86-64 so they could at least offer a viable 64 bit version to most users, or at least make their plugin container process / chrome parent process 64 bit. I still love Chrome because it's the only browser that I'd even think to use in this way.

Cute Borg story, I do see the need to fully assimilate those unused resources. In recent years, hardware capability is far outstripping traditional software needs and we're working with vast and untapped computational power and memory scratch space under our hoods. My style of Chrome use is an attempt to better saturate my desktop's capabilities, which is over two years old at this point. The only time my CPU use spikes above 50% is when I restore all my tabs after Chrome crashes; even most games don't get close. I also use a ram-drive to store temporary directories for speed and to reduce wear on my SSD.

I'd add even more ram except my TZ68A+ caps out at 32 Gigs.

 

[zed]

an icon in any tab making noise; this is a Godsend for me.

I know why didnt they do this years ago