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Ghostery is extremly slow in Firefox with many tabs
I used FF25 with over 750 open tabs. FF will hang for about 30-60 seconds every 5 minutes. With FF26/27 FF hangs for about 5 seconds every 20 seconds. The guilty extension is Ghostery. Please test with many tabs loaded and fix the bugs.
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Mozilla's official position is that more than 100 tabs is excessive. Anything beyond that is at your own risk, and not recommended.
What you are doing isn't reasonable,
While Ghostery does perform periodic housekeeping, if there's variation between different Firefox versions, it's very likely not something we can fix.
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Many tabs is one reason why Mozilla introduced to load only tabs when you click on them and not all tabs.
I have absolutely no problem with 1300 tabs. Only Ghostery is doing some strange thinks that makes FF very slow and hangs.
I see no reason why Ghostery should be affected by all the tabs even when they are not loaded. There is something wrong with it. -
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Which, along with some other internal changes, allowed them to raise their recommended limit from 30 to 100.
Again, if "it used to work, but now it doesn't" when Firefox changed, but Ghostery didn't, that suggests something within the browser itself (or the Add-on SDK) that's beyond our control.
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What a strange answer.
And Mozilla doesn's say it's not recommended to have many tabs open. They say your should consider using something else because of the memory usage. But that's not my problem.
You write an extension, something changes in FF and you say it's beyond your control? How about debugging your extension and see what's wrong and adept to the new FF behavior? In my opinion it looks like you have a huge performance bottleneck and that FF changed something in FF26 so Ghostery is much slower than before. If you would fix your bottleneck, all users would have a benefit. I also develop software and I always criticize my employees when they tell me the same. "They" changed something and now my code isn't working correctly anymore. Nearly all the times it was their fault because they didn't code to the software interface contracts.
You could check if it's a bug in FF or in Ghostery.
It's ok for me that you don't care and won't check what's wrong. I don't depend on Ghostery. -
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Can I please ask the perfectly reasonable question as to why you need 750+ open tabs?
It is a bit much to blame an extension when your use is obviously excessive. -
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Read Mozilla's developer mailing lists. Read their bugzilla reports. You'll see they they aren't very keen on taboholics. What I've seen in the wild, from people who try keeping excessive numbers of tabs open, is Firefox seeming to work OK for a while, but eventually becoming unstable, and often corrupting its sessionstore files in the process. "It hurts when I do this." "Don't do that." (Google Chrome may be a better choice for people who like to keep many tabs open.)
You might try installing the MemChaser extension to see if that sheds any light on your situation.
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Funny answer: "It hurts when I do this." "Don't do that."
It doesn't hurt when I do this. It only hurts when I use Ghostery. So I don't do that and stop using Ghostery.
And I don't care what defect HDDs or instable computers others use. Mine is working great and I never had a problem with FF and many tabs. It's just
Ghostery which has a performance bottleneck.
And I tried Google Chrome. First I don't like the feeling of the browser, second, it's unusable with over 100 Tabs because of the multi process model. -
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