On 2017-06-25 07:28 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 09:50:06PM -0400, Christopher Havel wrote:
In my experience, there are few things in life slower than Chrome/Chromium after restoring a previous session...
I use firefox. It seems to do lazy restoration of tabs, which makes it somewhat more performant.
Indeed. I have significant experience of this as I operate the same way as Luke, so have hundreds of tabs in 50-odd windows at any one time.
I've noticed that when it gets slow, doing killall firefox-esr and the restarting it does wonders for speed. Rumour has it that firefox never releases storage for a deleted tab, causing it to bloat.
My firefox gets noticeably slow after a few days, and extremely slow after 10 or 20 with lots of 10-second 'hangs'. I have spent some time trying to find out what is going on, collecting debug logs, and have determined that it is the garbage-collection action which makes it just do nothing for several seconds. Something is making memory horrible fragmented and/or just using it up steadily and not giving it back, and it just takes longer and longer to try and collect garbage. I have not yet determined which component is doing this. I can say that for most people (who have a lot of pages open) switching from adblock plus to ublock origin will save stonking amounts of memory and make things perform rather better, just because of the way they work.
I should try Chromium sometime. Chrome itself is no longer supported on 32-bit Linux.
I have not used chromium enough to determine if it better in this 'slowdown' regard.
I hate the way there aren't any cross-browser bookmarks. Another form of lock-in.
If you are OK with remote bookmarks then you can use them from both chromium and firefox (e.g. google bookmarks), and it's quite easy to transfer them in either direction, but I don't know of a local, open, bookmark-store mechanism.
Wookey