Firefox experiment

puj

i was bored so i decided to see how many firefox tabs i could open before it crashed.

i am using the extension tab mix plus to get multi line tabs.

i managed to open 348 tabs all displaying google.co.uk (my home page)

firefox was also using more than 200 mb of my 512mb ram!

this is an intresting fact! :money:

Amba_Gambla

someone's had a busy day :rolleyes:

skintscotsman

thanks.

more threads like this please.

sra

It's not just about tabs, it's about what the tab was doing before as Firefox keeps track of previous pages for quick back/forward navigation.

So a few tabs that have been navigating to different pages will take up more resources than the same number of tabs opened from fresh - especially if the pages you visited previously were big.

Unless you disable it

Can't remember but it might be browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers from about:config that decides how many pages each tab remembers (default is 5)

puj

When i started out i just wanted to see how many tabs i could open, now looking at my results i could give this a thought.

imagen having 348 internet explorer windows open what would happen?

i would imagen the computer would stop responding much before that fill up the ram very quickly

I will not try that now i dont want to crach my computer

skintscotsman

reaaly folks, thanks.

martindow

But what is the max number that you can actually see? On this computer there is a limit to how much they shrink down before it starts adding them invisibly off to the right.

sra

If you click on a tab and press the right/left arrow then you can cycle through tabs - even the one's you cannot see.

puj

martindow wrote:

But what is the max number that you can actually see? On this computer there is a limit to how much they shrink down before it starts adding them invisibly off to the right.

i can see them all, using the tab mix plus extension when the line fills up it makes a new one. i was on the 9'th line!

wolfman

Just out of interest I did the same with Opera. Got up to 100 tabs opened to Yahoo.com, and it was only using 33mb of resources. Very good, although Opera is a true MDI application, whereas I believe Firefox isn't (hence eating up more memory).