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FFOX 18-19 horribly unstable on Fedora 17, have tried turning off add-ins, turning off GPU, WebGL features???

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Have been using FFOX on this machine since FFOX 12, up until 1 month ago very stable app. i usually keep 100 tabs open on a Fedora 17 box with 8 core and 24 GB of memory. Since FFOX 18, stability has been horrible. Some days, keeps shutting down every 5 minutes. Have had to move to chromium and google-chrome-stable to get any work done. TIA

Have been using FFOX on this machine since FFOX 12, up until 1 month ago very stable app. i usually keep 100 tabs open on a Fedora 17 box with 8 core and 24 GB of memory. Since FFOX 18, stability has been horrible. Some days, keeps shutting down every 5 minutes. Have had to move to chromium and google-chrome-stable to get any work done. TIA

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You don't think 100 tabs is a bit much? Bookmarks can save pages that you want to revisit without taking a lot of resources.

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I can not say I have noticed mass reports of instability.

Certainly some users keep 100 or more tabs open without problems. Although not bookmarked I remember a survey a couple of years ago that surprised me by just how many open tabs some users have.

What worries me about the practice is that session restore is not as robust as bookmarks, so there is potential to loose the open tabs. I did open about 600 recently without problems !!

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Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See "Creating a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.

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Even the advanced search on this Forum is rather primitive. I was trying to reproduce a users problem recently and so had several Firefox Windows one with 600 tabs open but Firefox worked ok for me. I can not find that thread at the moment. Having a lot of tabs open may not be the underlying cause, but it may make trouble shooting easier if the problem may be reproduced with one or only a few tabs open.

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