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I use dozens to hundreds tabs in IE11 and Chrome, sure it may use 16 GB ram, but I have more than that. Firefox often removes the tabs from the memory, going back to the tab means reloading the page. I will check out the recent Alpha for sure, I have it installed.


Maybe you have a system with a lot of memory, but for me Chrome gets to be unusable with many tabs open, whereas Firefox survives.


> I use dozens to hundreds tabs in IE11 and Chrome, sure it may use 16 GB ram

Ah yes. The infamous "16GB ram in a laptop is not enough because I use a web-browser called Chrome"-syndrome.

And then someone turns around and says Firefox has memory leaks. You'd think they were joking, but they're not.


Are you abusing tabs as bookmarks?


Nope. But during research I open tabs an switch between them. And for every research topic I tend to use a seperate window.




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