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Dietrich Ayala
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Dietrich Ayala writes dietrich.ayala, a personal blog at metafluff.com about web and culture. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2017 post on tab hoarding as a reference for Firefox's handling of large numbers of open tabs, including restore speed and resource use of unloaded tabs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Huh. Is this consistent for you? Since Firefox 55, we should be able to restore 1500+ tabs in under 15 seconds: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
Comment linking /2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
on “Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try”Submitted The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs as a story · 984 points
HN discussion> The worst part of Firefox is the terribly long startup time. It can take up to 10 seconds after a reboot and takes quite a long time even with warm caches. If you're the type with a lot of tabs open, that should improve a lot in the next few releases. https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/index.ht...
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on “uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions”Firefox is really only using 5 gigs because the system has so much RAM in the first place. It's just their default tuning options. If the RAM is needed for slack/discord/spotify, then just restart Firefox. It'll make use of a fraction of what is left. You can also reduce Firefox RAM usage in about:config and by reducing the number of content processes in settings. But Firefox is really very good with crazy numbers o…
Comment linking /2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
on “Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster”Things happen, man. https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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on “Tab Unloading in Firefox 93”I'm very glad they've drastically reduced the resources taken up by restored (but not activated) tabs. I tend to hoard tabs which I swear I'll organise into bookmarks "soon" but never quite get round to it. There's more info on this here: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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on “Firefox 55: WebVR and more”Didn't we just discuss this on the front page two days ago? Seems like a dupe/linkspam post to me... Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823807 Original blog post: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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on “Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust”The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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on “Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?”If performance is a problem, maybe switch to Firefox. They've done some work that's been demonstrated to specifically to handle the hundreds of tabs edge case smoothly. https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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on “Ask HN: What do you do about too many open browser tabs?”
