[kwlug-disc] AMD Laptops and Radeon with Ubuntu?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might also look into the tab suspending addons, as available. Speed
> increase / memory footprint difference has been astounding. On Chrome I use
> 'The Great Suspender' (dratted stupid unintuitive names!)
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg
>
> Pale Moon sometimes has Firefox addon compatibility issues - their site and
> forums point you to alternatives and workarounds where known. The only
> working equivalent to the addon above is 'BarTab Heavy'
> https://github.com/philikon/BarTab/wiki/FAQ - which I ended up uninstalling.
> Firefox may have better equivalents. Like I said the difference in speed and
> memory footprint is astonishing.

Found Auto Unload Tab, and installed it. Seems to do the trick after a
day of use, with Firefox's resident set staying at 1.8GB, rather than
over 4GB as previous.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-tab/

Other candidates that I have not tried are:

Suspend Tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

Unload Tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/

A common complaint about these is that they don't preserve the
tab/window state when Firefox restarted. I use Session Manager and
tell it to save the state every half hour or so, and therefore if
Firefox crashes, or I kill it for any reason, I tell it to load the
exact tabs I had previously.