Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed [LWN.net]

Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed

Posted Jun 13, 2013 8:03 UTC (Thu) by tpo (subscriber, #25713)
In reply to: Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed by halla
Parent article: RSS feed reading in Firefox

> I'm guessing you've got some extensions installed

Yes I do:

* Adblock Plus
* Certificate Monster
* Cookie Monster
* EventBug
* Firebog
* Go Parent
* JSONView
* Konquefox
* NoScript
* RefControl
* RequestPolicy

I also have 61 Tabs open.

Thunderbird has Lightning (having a calendar is the reason I'm using it in the first place).

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Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed

Posted Jun 13, 2013 10:36 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] (1 responses)

Try adding BarTab, which some people are still maintaining to some extent. One of its features is the option to unload background tabs after a period of idleness. I have my period set to 7 days, but you could set yours to 1 hour and probably see improvement from that.

BarTab

Posted Jun 14, 2013 2:28 UTC (Fri) by idupree (guest, #71169) [Link]

Currently, "UnloadTab" is the best currently-working BarTab replacement I've found.

Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed

Posted Jun 20, 2013 11:34 UTC (Thu) by flammon (guest, #807) [Link] (1 responses)

Firebug will set fire to your CPU. Unfortunately I can't live without it so I must endure the heat for now.

Having the Hummer handle my RSS feed

Posted Jun 20, 2013 18:07 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (guest, #38647) [Link]

On the plus side, in recent versions (of either Firefox or Firebug or both, I'm not sure), you can enable/disable the firebug extension without needing to restart the browser.