I use that, too. In reality, I use Brave more than waterfox, but I was recommending waterfox as a firefox replacement. I have up to 100 tabs open on Brave, so I do other things on Waterfox. Brave starts getting unhappy when I go over 100 tabs and it becomes hard for me to find the tab I want.
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Sounds like we share bad habits 🤣
brave has tab groups now, so you can organise those things a lot more cleanly as well, and firefox has still not implemented this feature, so, i understand what you mean but i have over 100 tabs tied to several different browser tab groups now and i don't get problems with that
i will just say that i'm not sure how much memory you need, maybe it is more, but 16gb of memory should be enough to run brave nicely on a linux installation
also, brave now has a feature to limit resource usage of tabs more effectively, i forget what it is because i enabled it and never get asked anymore and performance is definitely improved generally
some web apps are abhorrently excessively resource users tho, it's better to find alternatives to them anyway
for my money, if a tab is using more than 400mb (and brave also reports this in a tooltip on each tab) it's probably rubbish
Do I have to open a tab inside the group? I was able to create a group from one tab, but can't figure out how to add other open tabs to the same group. I can only find creating a new group and adding one existing tab to it.
Never mind. I just figured it out.
awesome! yeah, it's really cool eh?
a few weird bits to how to use it, like moving tabs by drag and drop is a bit un-intuitive, but it helps keep my tabs in order
ah yeah, so, the thing to improve performance is in the "system" menu of the settings, under "performance" and "memory saver"
i haven't actually had to use it because my pc has 64gb memory and rarely uses more than 20gb most of the time but for 8 or 16gb machines i can imagine it helps a lot, also you can whitelist apps to be able to run in the background, like email and such