Current Firefox boot time: roughly 17 minutes

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@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

@joepie91 @thibaultmol I fairly regularly get that one window not wanting to redraw issue on my desktop, in Plasma 5 on Wayland.

While it may just be because it's the main time that I use multiple windows, it's usually when I go play videos in a separate window on a separate display.

I have seen that spinner too but not very often.

@onekopaka @thibaultmol For me it always seems to happen after switching a tab. Though videos do seem to often be involved, and I do run multi-monitor under Plasma 5, though on X I think?

@joepie91 @thibaultmol yes that is definitely when it hits for me too, I go to switch over to a tab in the about to become problematic window (the window on my main display) and things become broken.

@joepie91
But like.... Is your Firefox setup to load all tabs on startup?
That's on you.

I have had 1500 tabs last week but only load when they're pinned or i click on them

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