Current Firefox boot time: roughly 17 minutes
@joepie91 do I even wanna know HOW you can make that happen...
@thibaultmol Tabs. Many tabs. And a roughly daily forced restart of my browser because the IPC collapses under the weight of my tabs
@thibaultmol (Usually manifesting as one window suddenly failing to redraw unless I constantly minimize and restore it, or one of my extensions suddenly breaking, or an endless Firefox-rendered spinner showing when I try to load a page and the relevant process is unreachable, or...)
@thibaultmol ... one day I hope to encounter a Firefox contributor who wants to do a hands-on debugging session because I'm pretty sure by this point that my usage patterns are revealing several hard-to-reproduce browser bugs
@someonetellmetosleep @thibaultmol Varies from a couple hundred to about 7k max (above that, Firefox starts just breaking)
@joepie91 @thibaultmol you do have it set to load tabs on demand after restarts, yes? Also, are you using the Auto Tab Discard extension?
@someonetellmetosleep @joepie91 Q: is there a reason you're reloading all the tabs on restart? I have that turned off (as is the default) because I can then just restart firefox and start fresh (well.. still hundreds of tabs, but giant ram pile xd)
@someonetellmetosleep @thibaultmol It reloads the tabs on start, but only loads the page content of the currently-focused ones, the rest remain unloaded. No Auto Tab Discard though.
@joepie91 @thibaultmol I strongly recommend Auto Tab Discard. Despite the usual meaning of the name, "discarding" is what Firefox calls unloading a tab while keeping it in the tab list. I have mine set to a max of 80 tabs loaded, and it discards down to 40. Firefox uses quite a bit of RAM, but it doesn't increase much over time and I regularly keep it open for a month or so, until it forces a restart for an update.
@someonetellmetosleep @thibaultmol I don't think that would fix the startup time issue?
@joepie91 @thibaultmol Well I haven't had startup time issues since a Tree Style Tab update a fairly long time ago (so it was probably a different issue) so I can't really address that. But if you don't need to restart Firefox every day then that still saves you time.
Rereading the thread I'm not sure where I got the idea that memory use was an issue. I may have incorrectly generalized from my own experience there. However discarding tabs may still help with other problems that get worse with more tabs loaded and it should speed the browser up generally as well.
@joepie91 @thibaultmol how many tabs? I have 5k tabs and my browser startup time is like 2 minutes maybe