Firefox crashes 3-8 times daily

[whatthefunk]

What do you do with 360 tabs? I rarely have more than 5 open....

[woodsmoke]

LOL well, I thought that I was the ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD that would have thirty or fourty tabs open at once,

For moi, it happens when I'm grading online essays and since I do dialectic I'll have multiple tabs open obtaining copy and paste info for replies and such.

It doesn't happen very often but it does happen once in a while.

I get a crash once in a while when I go through to a link provided in a response which is usually one of those sites that has a lot of adverts and has a lot of sublinks and FF is trying to collate the sublinks.

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

I have both and they're identical in appearance - except for colour accents! Chromium uses slightly more memory with one blank tab. ... And with three busy tabs. The UI including menus are almost identical.

Actually they're different versions so this may not be representative:
Chrome Version 40.0.2214.94 (64-bit)
Chromium Version 37.0.2062.120 Ubuntu 12.04 (281580) (64-bit)

I'd still call them "similar" though. Wouldn't you?

That's what I was told and thought, before I installed it.
On my box they look and are configured differently during installation.
Chromium limits me in ways Chrome doesn't, but since I'm responding using my iPhone I won't get into details.

[SecretCode]

What do you do with 360 tabs? I rarely have more than 5 open....

The truth is I'm not doing anything with most of them - they are links from forums and searches and projects that I had going and so on - that I haven't finishing reading or researching. They ought to be bookmarked for later but if I had time to do that ...

Very few of them are loaded - I have Firefox set up to restore tabs from last time but not to load them until I select them, so they just sit there until I go searching.

[SecretCode]

but since I'm responding using my iPhone I won't get into details.

Good point, Apple are probably listening in :P

[jlittle]

I sometimes use lots of tabs in firefox.¹ The memory use per tab varies enormously, depending at least on the page's use of javascript. When my system had limited memory² running full Kubuntu and firefox and opening lots (say 20 to 40) tabs on KFN was ok, but 10 or so on google groups and the system thrashed awfully for minutes, because each tab used 300 MiB initially, dropping to 160 MiB after it had finished loading. I bought some more RAM to resolve the problem, but years later I've noticed that firefox's use of memory when loading a google groups tab has lessened.

¹ Back in usenet days with dial up I got into the habit of opening lots of posts from the list of headers, so that they would load in the background, and after reading a post I could just close the tab to go to the next one instantly.

²My mobo died the replacement had fewer memory slots so my memory dropped to 1 GiB.

[SecretCode]

I have for a long time been in the habit of monitoring the memory consumed by applications and whether swap space is being used. I use a Firefox addon Memory Restart :: Add-ons for Firefox, just for the ability to display current memory usage in a toolbar / statusbar (and you can set a threshold above which it goes red).

Just started experimenting with UnloadTab :: Add-ons for Firefox, but not using its ability to automatically unload inactive tabs, just manually.

[MrSteve]

it maybe worth while limiting firefox's memory usage

in the address bar write
about:config
then press the OK button

then add a new integer by right clicking on that page then on this menu > new then > integer

set the new integer as
browser.cache.memory.capacity

set the value to -1

close and reopen your browser
this will limit firefox to a % of the available memory that the system has ...