Firefox stability with many tabs [LWN.net]

Firefox stability with many tabs

Posted Oct 15, 2009 9:33 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer by dlang
Parent article: A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer

This might be this Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263160 - related to GTK, it only happens with (say) 50 to 100 tabs or more. The main symptom is that IFRAMEs 'pop out' as windows, and eventually Firefox hangs or crashes.

This bug has been open from Firefox 1.0 to 3.5.x, so if any Firefox or GTK experts could take a look at it, I'm sure some heavy Firefox users would be thankful. Currently Firefox works much better on Windows than Linux when you have 100+ tabs, for this reason.

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Firefox stability with many tabs

Posted Oct 15, 2009 17:48 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

no, this is a different bug, I am not having anything 'jump out' and create new windows, just one thread of firefox goes into a tight loop.