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I used TreeStyleTabs for a few years. But then, one day, I accidentally closed it -- and the browser was running so much faster I can't stand TST anymore.


I don't find that it slows down FF. How long ago did you try TST?


I re-open it every month or so, and it didn't really change.

I can't notice it when I have 10-100 tabs open. It's unbearable when I have 1000 (which happens more often than I would like to admit).

It should be noted, though, that my web browsing machine is an early 2013 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM; It's possible I wouldn't have noticed on a faster machine.


Well, your browser without TST is going to handle 1000 no better, so it's not really about TST.

For example, there are many solutions to auto-suspend old tabs so they unload from memory.


On the same hardware, the same browser with TST disabled (and no auto-suspend) easily handles 1,000 open tabs - slightly slower than it handles 100, but barely noticeable. With TST it is unbearably slow.




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