Does anybody find browsers in general unstable?

Greenlizard0

Greenlizard0

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Tabs are brilliant, it means you can neatly organise what you want open and ready to use at a single instantaneous click. This has meant for the last 6 years or so I've had on average about 45+ tabs open at once, from email accounts, news, forums, information (Wiki), media (imdb) etc.

Bear in mind that apart from Scrabble on Facebook, there are no heavy pages and all are helpfully minimised with KIS so they by and large run without flash adverts.

On average disappointingly, I've never been able to keep the browser open for longer than 2 days. Then it usually crashes, or needs to close because occasionally there's a memory leak or by then the system is running a bit sluggishly.

I've found this on Firefox years ago, and Opera, Chrome and IE since. Irrespective of build, browser version, OS (XP to Win 7 all fully updated) and the speed of computer I'm on I seemingly can't find a rock solid stable setup such that I can't do the comparatively simple thing of keeping any open for long.

Does anybody else have this problem?

tl;dr - browsers can be unstable and don't run for ages, yeh or neh..
 
I can keep firefox going all day at work with no issues, that includes a few ad ons like IEtab, adblock plus, hide favicons, download manager tweak (puts it in a tab instead of window) and a few other bits and bobs with no issues.

I must confess though, I always tend to close the browser by the end of the day before putting the PC to sleep. I don't think I have ever tried to keep it going for more than 1 working day.
 
I don't think most browsers have really been designed for 45+ tabs, most users probably only have ~15 going on average.

I've never had stability problems tho with Firefox 3.6.x (not tried 4 as this build does everything I need, seems secure and very stable/responsive).
 
Using Firefox Aurora a2, and its very stable :D Though i've seen the memory usage of firefox increase to the hundreds if left on for a long time.. Its difficult to know what the reason, and might not occur with different builds.
 
I always find that firefox grinds to a halt when I have 20+ tabs open, especially if a few of them have flash running. Chrome becomes sluggish but has never crashed because of the amount of tabs open.
 
IE9 features tab recovery, so the whole lot shouldn't all crash at once - only the one tab with the site causing problems.

Not sure about the others, but because of this, i have not had IE completely crash and shut down on me for years.
 
yeah 45+ is a bit over the top
dont see the point of anywhere near that many open
surely by the time you have found the tab you want you could have just opened it from bookmarks faster
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Tabs are brilliant, it means you can neatly organise what you want open and ready to use at a single instantaneous click. This has meant for the last 6 years or so I've had on average about 45+ tabs open at once, from email accounts, news, forums, information (Wiki), media (imdb) etc.

Bear in mind that apart from Scrabble on Facebook, there are no heavy pages and all are helpfully minimised with KIS so they by and large run without flash adverts.

On average disappointingly, I've never been able to keep the browser open for longer than 2 days. Then it usually crashes, or needs to close because occasionally there's a memory leak or by then the system is running a bit sluggishly.

I've found this on Firefox years ago, and Opera, Chrome and IE since. Irrespective of build, browser version, OS (XP to Win 7 all fully updated) and the speed of computer I'm on I seemingly can't find a rock solid stable setup such that I can't do the comparatively simple thing of keeping any open for long.

Does anybody else have this problem?

tl;dr - browsers can be unstable and don't run for ages, yeh or neh..
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45 tabs, running them all thru your adblocker, eventually it'll lead to a memory leak, in either FF or Kaspersky (which is renoun for them), you'll either tab crash or browser crash.
 
Hmmm 45+ tabs is a bit over the top eh .... well i know this is a bit silly but i've just counted how many I currently have open and its erm........... 115 :eek:

I'm using Firefox 3.6.1.3 with Adblock Plus, FlashBlock and Tree Style Tab

I know there is a newer version, but a while back I was trying the 64bit version of firefox and it kept crashing after updates. Now im back to the 32bit version and it hasn't crashed once.... and with this many tabs open and firefox not struggling one bit, why would i want to update ;)


Yes i use Bookmarks, but i think the reason I tend to leave so many open is because I am very forgetful. I can never seem to keep my brain on one thing at a time. So when my brains done wandering, an open tab will remind me what I was doing previously :D
 
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I've noticed firefox being unstable, unlike other browsers it only has one process so if one tab gets screwed up the whole browser crashes. Will probably switch to opera.
 
Rroff said:
I don't think most browsers have really been designed for 45+ tabs, most users probably only have ~15 going on average.

I've never had stability problems tho with Firefox 3.6.x (not tried 4 as this build does everything I need, seems secure and very stable/responsive).
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I disagree, the average user probably only averages 2 or 3. If that! I have around 4-5 open, at a max around 20, but thats doing busy work!
 
marc2003 said:
i think it's ridiculous having that many tabs open at once. :confused: i can switch between sites just as easily by using this new fangled thing called bookmarks. :p
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I guess it's how I browse.

The menus (ALT F) for example move about, and their content continuously changes. It's easier just to use Windows' hover menu on the task bar, click onto a window (/session of tabs) and then you can click straight to where you want to go. Everything is loaded up and ready to use immediately.

Plus in Opera you have the advantage you can save and back up sessions. I link the folder in with my back up manager and let it run periodically.

As said, had I lots of Flash or Java applications I'd understand. But bar Scrabble there's nothing there that's heavy. The next heaviest thing is Facebook itself which is pretty light as web pages go.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
In what way is that better than having 10 tabs and bookmarks?
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You obviously didn't read my first post fully :rolleyes:


Anyway, I thought this thread was about finding a stable browser for those of us who like to use way too many tabs?

I don't usually have 115 tabs open....... well saying that I dont know and really don't care because i can't remember the last time Firefox felt sluggish or crashed. Yes it can take a while to load up, but i rarely close it!

Greenlizard0 said:
Plus in Opera you have the advantage you can save and back up sessions.
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And in Firefox just Bookmark all tabs
 
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