Pale Moon update?

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 16:30, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
 >
> > My existing FF gets flaky when I have too many windows/tabs open, thus
> > my running multiple browsers - BUT - does Waterfox store EVERYTHING
> > completely separate from FF so both can be loaded up without any
> > interaction? Since it loaded bookmarks, etc, are these essentially
> > shared with FF so changes/additions appear in both?

AFAIK, it imports your Firefox settings and then keeps its own. Ask in
the Reddit group for advice:
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox

> Tried running Waterfox Classic with a VERY heavily loaded FF. Barely
> ran at all - takes 1-2 minutes to load a complex page, even takes 10-20
> sec to go to another already 'open' tab [starts blank..... then comes
> up]. And it quickly gets even slower with multiple tabs on one page.

There is an optional Firefox setting to load all tabs at once when
restoring a session. If it bogs down too much, turn it off.

As Waterfox imports your Firefox settings, if you had disabled F'fox's
multiprocess rendering, then I think W'fox will come up the same.
Perhaps check that?

> Worst is if I try to access the same page in WF & FF. If already
> running in FF, it doesn't even come up in WF. Perhaps the 2 pgms share
> a lot of stuff, so adding WF is worse than adding nothing. :-((

They shouldn't, no.

> Good idea, but not if running both at the same time...

Why would you? I switched completely and no longer use F'fox on most
of my machines. On Linux where it is often bundled, I leave it, but
never open it. On MacOS & Windows I have just removed it.

On all my machines I now use W'fox for general Web stuff, and Chrome
for Web 2-heavy or Javascript-heavy apps, and for stuff needing Flash
and other media playback tools, e.g. Zoom, GoToMeeting, etc.

I would not generally advise trying 2 Mozilla browsers side-by-side
concurrently.

Also, tab sleep may help?

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/03/28/hibernate-tabs-in-firefox-with-sleep-mode/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-suspender/

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