Coldblackice
[H]ard|Gawd
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Browsers start to get sluggish and unresponsive under increasing tab load. What/Where specifically is the source of this slowness, and could it possibly be "boosted" in some way (other than limiting tabs)?
Obviously, there's a heavy load on memory when you have 100+ tabs open. But if there's a copious amount of RAM + page file available, why does it still get slow? What function or mechanism is the source of the slowdown? Is it on the browser's side of responsibility, or the OS'?
Without the Firefox source code, I'm wondering if there's some measure I could tweak to circumvent the slowdown, like perhaps manually allocating metric-ton of disk cache, or something.
(For reference, speaking of 64-bit browsers)
Obviously, there's a heavy load on memory when you have 100+ tabs open. But if there's a copious amount of RAM + page file available, why does it still get slow? What function or mechanism is the source of the slowdown? Is it on the browser's side of responsibility, or the OS'?
Without the Firefox source code, I'm wondering if there's some measure I could tweak to circumvent the slowdown, like perhaps manually allocating metric-ton of disk cache, or something.
(For reference, speaking of 64-bit browsers)