[GTALUG] Looking for assistance with Firefox

[o1bigtenor]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:30 PM o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Question re: Firefox behavior on a clean shutdown and reboot.
>
> Firefox is set to reload previous pages and tabs upon a restart.
> My system is LOADED with memory - - - - 64 GB in fact.
> Am also running multi-gpu and wanting to run with all 5 of my monitors but
> nouveau isn't up to running the 4k monitor yet! I use a large number of
> virtual desktops as well.
> As a result I get grumpy when programs don't allow me to work using my
> particular system.
> I will admit that I can get to over 25 pages open - - - I start a page for
> every topic I'm looking at.
> That's a page for every interest or every function (online
> tools/activities). There also tends to get to be a lot of tabs.
> I work had at keeping to under 40 to 50 tabs per age but there are usually
> a few pages where the number of tabs goes nuts.
> Because nouveau really doesn't like functioning with my setup (proprietary
> code is far worse!!! nvidia hates multi-gpu now although they didn't when I
> set up the system!) so system restarts are forced upon me far more often
> that I would like. Because of the forced system restarts I get to task
> firefox-esr in setting up the way it was before the system went down.
>
> Are there hard limits that force Firefox to not renew pages as they were
> (so more than xx number of pages)?
> Are there hard limits that force Firefox to not renew 'a' page (I've had
> this happen where one page doesn't renew but all the rest do)?
> If there are no 'hard' limits (programmed in per se) are there amounts of
> pages or tabs or perhaps tabs/page or something else from this stew that
> greater than xx tabs or yy pages or even a small number of pages having
> more than xy tabs where such activity results in firefox not restarting as
> it is listed to do so (restart the pages and tabs present upon shutdown) is
> considered 'usual'?
> I am trying to find parameters where I'm not faced with what I have right
> now.
> There were about 30 odd different pages and from 15 to who knows how many
> tabs per page. Some tabs were held as I was working on business deals.
> Re-establishing this amount of stuff is a royal pita. If I know that any
> behavior over a level described as 'x' is dangerous then I can work hard to
> stay under those levels.
>
> Please advise
>
(edited to add subject - - - argh!)
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