Mega thank you!

Thanks for this! I’ll toss the info their way and see what they say. As far as I understand from trying to troubleshoot and discuss with them, the really only viable solution is to have all of their tabs visible at once “just like Chrome”, so I don’t know if the tree-style tabs plugins will fit their needs, but it can’t hurt to suggest it.

I really do appreciate the input; It can be frustrating (as an autism myself) to ask “Hey how do I do A” and everyone responds with “don’t do A, do B or C instead” but I have to do A for a very specific set of reasons. Even still, it’s nice to see that everyone is at least pitching in with extra info and advice, just in case.

Thanks for this! I’ll toss the info their way and see what they say. As far as I understand from trying to troubleshoot and discuss with them, the really only viable solution is to have all of their tabs visible at once “just like Chrome”, so I don’t know if the tree-style tabs plugins will fit their needs, but it can’t hurt to suggest it.

I really do appreciate the input; It can be frustrating (as an autism myself) to ask “Hey how do I do A” and everyone responds with “don’t do A, do B or C instead” but I have to do A for a very specific set of reasons. Even still, it’s nice to see that everyone is at least pitching in with extra info and advice, just in case.

Thanks for this! I’ll toss the info their way and see what they say. As far as I understand from trying to troubleshoot and discuss with them, the really only viable solution is to have all of their tabs visible at once “just like Chrome”, so I don’t know if the tree-style tabs plugins will fit their needs, but it can’t hurt to suggest it.

I really do appreciate the input; It can be frustrating (as an autism myself) to ask “Hey how do I do A” and everyone responds with “don’t do A, do B or C instead” but I have to do A for a very specific set of reasons. Even still, it’s nice to see that everyone is at least pitching in with extra info and advice, just in case.

They’re using my previous PC which I sent to them as a gift when building my current PC. It’s got decent specs and 16GB ram but they are the sort to have anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred Chrome tabs open across a handful of windows plus BlueStacks (an Android VM/emulator tool) open with a few instances of mobile gacha games plus whatever actual PC game he’s playing. The other day his computer “couldn’t open youtube” so after some troubleshooting it turned out he’d filled up his entire ram (16GB) and his entire swapdisk (set to 32GB on the main C: drive, which was an SSD) but it overflowed and continued going until the C drive itself was full, somewhere around like 75GB of ram being used because he left everything running for over 9 days without ever closing anything.

So long as they continue to insist on using Chrome and leaving half a dozen emulators/virtual machines spun up 24/7 while also leaving things like final fantasy running “in the background”, no amount of tossing more CPU/RAM at the problem will fix it; Chrome itself shouldn’t be using up 50+GB of ram but it’s Chrome, so it has memory leaks every other day, and he’s fixing the crux of the issue by ditching Chrome (also has had some security issues recently and we JUST did a malware cleanup this week as well due to a Chrome issue so just another reason he’s trying to ditch it in favor of Firefox)

I really do appreciate the input though. It can be frustrating (as an autism myself) to ask “Hey how do I do A” and everyone responds with “don’t do A, do B or C instead” but I have to do A for a very specific set of reasons. Even still, it’s nice to see that everyone is at least pitching in with extra info and advice, just in case.

Unfortunately this friend is extremely autistic and is having a full-blown panic meltdown due to “they can’t see all their tabs without clicking a button”. I’ve been encouraging them for several years to slowly migrate to firefox as they’ve been suffering crippling performance issues and memory leaks with chrome, but instead of heeding my advice (to slowly acclimate themselves to differences like this) they just found a tutorial to import everything at once and now they’re overwhelmed with all the differences happening at once and panicking.

I found the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth setting in about:config and suggested they set that to 0 but it’s only a compromise at best and I doubt they will end up sticking with firefox at this rate to be honest.