firefox memory clog
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Hi, Once in a while I try to clean up my tabs. First thing I do is use “merge all windows” to put all tabs into one window.

This often causes a memory clog and firefox get stuck in this state for 10-20 minutes

I have recorded one such instance.

I have tried using the “discard all tabs” addon, unfortunately, it is also getting frozen by the memory clog.

Sometimes I will just reboot my PC as that is faster.

Unfortunately, killing firefox this way, does not save the new tab order, so when I start firefox again, it will have 20+ windows open, which I again, merge all pages and then it clogs again !

So far the only solution I have found is just wait the 20 minutes.

Once the “memory clog” is passed, it runs just fine.

I would like better control over tab discard. and maybe some way of limitting bloat. For instance, I would rather keep a lower number of undiscarded youtube that as they seem to be insanely bloated.

In other cases, for most website I would like to never discard the contents.

In my ideal world, I would like the tabs to get frozen and saved to disk permanently, rather than assuming discard tabs can be reloaded. As if the websites were going to exist forever and discarding a tab is like cleaning a cache.

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
    01·
    1 year ago

    why do you need to keep the things you want to get back to open rather than just using Google to find the page again later?

    If it’s already in memory, that’s one few step to reach it.

    My tab manager can’t search google

    do you find it just by scrolling through all your tabs until a title/favicon looks like what you’re looking for?

    I search my live memory with Tab Manager Plus

    Sadly, it can’t search tab body text, only tab titles.

    if the page/content gets deleted off of the server, you don’t lose it. Is that correct?

    My software should not discard data without my permission. When it runs out of RAM it should dump to disk cache, not delete. But browser have the builtin assumption that the web remembers everything, which is false. I also think bookmarks should save all tab data, all text, all images, all code, all video, and the code should remain as functional as possible. That’s a long way off, currently the only way to do that is freeze the tab with its browser and operating system inside a virtual machine live snapshot.

    I haven’t been able to find any “discard all tabs

    I believe this one can do, discard selected tabs, but not discard all tabs

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/discard/

    Discard is the action where all tab content is deleted, keeping only URL, title and favicon

    I haven’t found discard all tabs either.

    I would like “stop all tabs” to work

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stop-all-button/

    But it will only work after firefox has cleared the clog, it currently freezes with the rest of the browser.