@artemis i have a ryzen 9 3900X here with 12 cores and 24 threads and it is just about enough to run a browser. wouldn't like to downgrade.

@dysfun i daily drive a 32-bit intel atom with 1 core and 2 threads, and 2 gigs of ram

@dysfun it runs browsers! and mastodon works on it just fine ;)

@artemis i currently have 519 tabs open in this window. not sure i'd want to try browsing on your machine lol

@dysfun how do u live like that

@artemis well i have a fast processor and a fuckton of ram obvs 😂​

@dysfun not what i mean i mean like how do you even find anything in 520 tabs lmaoo

@artemis sometimes with difficulty, i admit. but usually the firefox bar is't so bad when you remember the title of the tab you want

@dysfun you know fair enough

@artemis this is i should say after i made a conscious effort to try and keep below 1000 tabs. i used to have well over 3k but firefox is just unusable at that point.

@artemis even with most of the tabs paged out, at 3000, just launching a new tab can be a laggy process, because adding and then rendering a tab is clearly a linear process requiring it to scan all of them.

@dysfun im impressed it works at all at that point honestly

@artemis tbh, until it needs to add/remove entries from the tabbar, it does really well.

@dysfun @artemis (as a previous way too many tabs haver, try just closing them all once a month or 3 months. ime vast majority are actually just stuff you pretend to use/don't want to "lose"; it's still there in history if you actually need to find it. ymmv obviously but helped me break the cycle)

@maxc @artemis i used to get this naturally by firefox losing my session, but that hasn't happened in a while, so indeed this is what i do.

@artemis @dysfun my FF just stops opening tabs once there are 200 of them or so. More specifically, it opens them but does not even pretend to try to load anything

@artemis @dysfun We do that too and we just, open them and forget to close.

@artemis @dysfun I'm with Artemis here.

How do you LIVE like that?

Digital detox, post haste.

Albeit, I'm the sort of individual who sets background images to a single color because I remember when 7MHz CPUs were FAST and a background image load added appreciable delay to boot times and performance.

It still does! I never disclosed it widely but Windows XP can be crippled by using an animated GIF as a background image (pegs the CPU at 99%).

@dysfun @artemis
I have a bunch of tabs and use this to not get OOM killed.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

You can have your cake and eat it too.

@csepp @artemis i also use this extension. firefox would be horrific without it 😂​

@artemis @dysfun indeed, I live with a hp netbook that sounds a lot like that.