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Just tried on my laptop.

i7-5500u (Dual core, hyerthreading, turbo boosting to 2.9GHz)
16GB RAM
Windows 10 home
Chrome

CPU choked at around 210 tabs. RAM usage around 10GB.
 


32 bit you said? That isn't an accurate test then. 32 bit can only access up to 3.5GB of memory.

 


A 32 bit install of FF can only address up to 4GB of RAM.

 


Right.
 


So if you decide to run the test again you should use 64 bit FF.
 


Eventually, yes. I've been considering changing it to the 64bit version.
But...as the system is working perfectly right now, that is a very low priority.
 


Currently, FF spawns a new process for each browser instance.
I had 3 instances open, so 3 individual line items in Task Manager.

RAM was not the LIMFAC with this. Even at the 32bit level.
And once they were all open and everything settled down...RAM usage was minimal.
I probably could have opened another 500 'tabs'. Just probably not open ALL of them all at once.

The usability of 300 tabs or more, however, was uncontrollable, and a fools errand.
 
It's a very pointless idea, groups of 'page sets' as book marks that you load on demand would be better. Or learning enough programming to pull whatever data you are looking for from each page, into a single aggregation page.
 


what does this mean?

this this mean the cpu or ram was the limit for the 200 tabs? not loaded all at once im assuming

the tabs being the same content or not shouldn't matter any

after the tabs loaded, was performance slow, or was everything fine at those specs?

or the type of drive was making it slow, if it was slow?

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if loaded all at once (this is when the content being different would matter as it's getting new updated content from the pages even if they were all on the same site llike youtube),

would the cpu, ram, or 100mps internet be the limit?

or is the os? win10 vs chromeos, does it even matter? haven't decided on os yet
 


You've seen two different tests, from 2 people on completely different systems.
Multi hundred 'tabs' open, in different browsers, with varying levels of success.

And yes, all tabs opening the same content does matter. A lot.
You really need to understand why that is so.


Yet you've still not addressed the actual usability of several hundred tabs open at the same time.
Which is much better handled in other ways.

So...why? From your original...1,000+ tabs open. What is the use case for this? How do you plan to manage the data, from a human (UX) perspective?
 


The CPU was the limit, I said the CPU choked. It was pegged at 100%.

 


I think the bottleneck on more powerful hardware is not hardware speed but rather the OS/Browser wasn't designed to handle more than about 70-80 tabs at once, which is about the limit for usability, and if you don't want to be scrolling around the limit is more like 15 tabs.

So why on earth do you need 1000 tabs?

At that point you're better off writing a script to remember every URL you've been to and put it in a search engine/database on your computer. That's how inefficient and silly it is to have 1000 tabs open.

 


The CPU was the limit, I said the CPU choked. It was pegged at 100%.

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any charts for how much ram to get for each cpu options?

just going to pick cpu based on highst ratings on amaz since there seems to be no other good ways
 


what's the key reason? aritcle link?
 


am not aware or informed of what ways those are

everyone with this challenge dont know as well

there's been many attempts in all kinds of ways from chrome extensions to etc.

but hard challgens are hard

and need innovative solutions
 


i dont understand what is meant by this

i mentioend somewhere once upon a time that sometimes onenote is used

to take notes

also use my brain to consume info

unware of more innovative methods,

with the amount of info i consume, im pretty nobody else in this entire universe knows of high innovative ways

though could be mistaken

link?
 


waht would matter most if many tabs were loaded at once?

and know about these:?

"after the tabs loaded, was performance slow, or was everything fine at those specs?

or the type of drive was making it slow, if it was slow?

---

if loaded all at once (this is when the content being different would matter as it's getting new updated content from the pages even if they were all on the same site llike youtube),

would the cpu, ram, or 100mps internet be the limit?

or is the os? win10 vs chromeos, does it even matter? haven't decided on os yet"
 


And as stated before, amazon ratings for CPUs are the most stupid way possible of picking a CPU.

Within this thread you have many many decades of experience. Help us to help you, or we can't help.
 


"usability"
The concept of trying to find one particular browser tab, among several hundred open tabs.


"more innovative methods"?
You've still not told us your actual workflow with this.


My browser opens with 7 preset tabs. 6 sites, and a local html file with several dozen links to other sites on it.
I don't need or want ALL of them open at once. If I need one of them open, it is but a second or two to open tab #1, find the proper URL, middle click....it opens in a new tab, right next to where I am. Given a fast internet connection, it is open as fast as the site can serve it to me.
I don't have to hunt for it. It's right there.

Now....please tell us how you plan to find the content from foo.com, which is on some random tab between #185 and #462.
I guarantee that it will take you longer to find it, than for me to open a new tab, do what I need to do, and close it. While you're still hunting it down.
 


Example:

I was researching a different item today on Amazon. Not computer related, but that does not matter.

$600 part.
50 reviews.
6% of those 50 were 1 Star.
Why? Bad shipping.
Nothing wrong with the thing...just that the person did not agree with how it was shipped, or that the USP driver dropped it, or that the FEDEX truck broke down and it was a day late.

Useless reviews.
 


Amazon ratings are bad because they tell literally nothing about the actual speed of a processor.

CPUs have such a low failure rate anyway, and the RMA policies are pretty good.

Hell, you might find the CPU with the most 5 star ratings is a 5 year old AMD APU, which is absolutely not going to cut it.

Go with actual benchmarks when choosing a CPU.
 
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