> I have a lot of pages and tabs open, more than 20 at any given time.
20 tabs is shockingly low for causing performance problems, especially that severe and _especially_ on a computer with freaking 16 GB of RAM. I abuse tabs pretty badly on Chrome: on my 16 GB workstation I'd have a few hundred open, many of them for weeks at a time, and on my 8 GB laptop, I usually have up to 100, and I rarely get performance problems, certainly never to that degree.
I was one of the late-switchers to Chrome because there were some Firefox features I enjoyed, but the garbage performance finally forced my hand back in 2009/10 or whatever. I periodically check back with Firefox out of a healthy sense of wanting to be aware of alternatives, but it consistently fails at what's perhaps the most important to me: performance.
20 tabs is shockingly low for causing performance problems, especially that severe and _especially_ on a computer with freaking 16 GB of RAM. I abuse tabs pretty badly on Chrome: on my 16 GB workstation I'd have a few hundred open, many of them for weeks at a time, and on my 8 GB laptop, I usually have up to 100, and I rarely get performance problems, certainly never to that degree.
I was one of the late-switchers to Chrome because there were some Firefox features I enjoyed, but the garbage performance finally forced my hand back in 2009/10 or whatever. I periodically check back with Firefox out of a healthy sense of wanting to be aware of alternatives, but it consistently fails at what's perhaps the most important to me: performance.