[inertiatic]

I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.

[tombert]

I was using Firefox exclusively for years, but when I sold my Macbook and bought a Thinkpad and installed Linux on it, I grew pretty annoyed by Firefox.

Specifically, I couldn't view my 360 videos or photos on Google Images or Immich at anywhere near acceptable performance. The videos, recorded at 30fps, would get maybe 5fps. This was weird, because I have a fairly beefy laptop, it should be able to handle these videos just fine (especially since my iPhone handled it just fine).

After a bit of debugging, it appears that there's a bug in how it's writing for the shader cache, and as such there was no hardware acceleration. I found a bug filed about my issue [1], and I didn't really feel like trying to fix it, because I didn't want to mess with Mesa drivers. I just installed Chromium and that's what I'm using right now, and it worked with my 360 videos and photos absolutely fine.

I want Firefox to succeed, but that really left a bad taste in my mouth; it's not like it's weird to want my browser to be hardware accelerated.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1921742 Looks like it might be fixed now, or at least they figured out it was an issue with Mesa

[dewey]

I use Firefox as my main browser and having "tens of tabs open" is something I do and there's zero issues with that.

[Spivak]

I regularly have 200+ tabs open in FF, no idea what the parent is talking about.

Right now I'm at 181 and it's still buttery smooth.

[nightpool]

How big is your monitor? I can only see about 10-15 tabs on my 4k monitor before Firefox starts scrolling them off the screen. I regularly have 2-3x that on Chrome before tabs stop showing up.

[asadotzler]

1,740 tabs open right now on my wife's Firefox and it seems to be operating just fine. Sounds like something's wrong with your Firefox. I recommend a refresh which can be found under about:support

[aucisson_masque]

what the hell is she doing with 1740 tabs ? :)

10, 20, even 30 i can understand. More is the equivalent of forgetting to empty the kitchen trash can and still filling it until the smell is horrible.

someone got to tell her there is a cross on the right to close the tab.

[porker]

751 tabs open right now and growing.

Firefox copes fine. Me? Not so much (:

[kennysoona]

751 tabs open is just ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

Use some kind of tab session manager addon, and start organizing things - no need to have them all open concurrently.

[kingnothing]

Firefox works great with dozens of open tabs. The only thing Chrome has going for it is tab groups. Firefox has Tab Style Tree, which is a decent substitute.

[robin_reala]

Tab groups landed in Firefox Nightly 3 months ago,[1] I‘d expect them pretty soon in the release version.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187

[Ringz]

I have no problem with hundreds of tabs on Firefox.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

There is a "tab count" extension. Install it only if you want to learn some awful truths about yourself.

[chillingeffect]

I keep 100s of tabs open for months in Firefox. Chromium regulaly crashes after about 10-20.

[lawn]

I constantly have way more than that open. On mobile it's also over 100 tabs.

[Coffeewine]

Surely this is hyperbole? I usually have hundreds of tabs open on firefox.

[theteapot]

What? Why? That's me, I use FF.

[ecuzzillo]

You can't see all 50-70 tabs on a normal 27" monitor; Chrome will squish them almost indefinitely, and Firefox forces a large minimum tab width that makes the tab bar scroll forever and then you forget half the tabs you have going and everything's bad. I tried to switch and stopped because of this. I'll hang on until ubo really stops working, I guess, and then try to figure something else out.