Process count limit
Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:46:12 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.apps.epiphany |
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Hi, I was reading https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/the-search-for-the-goldilocks-browser-and-why-firefox-may-be-just-right-for-you-1f520506aa35 Currently we have a problem with Epiphany using too much memory when lots of tabs are open, since -- with a few exceptions -- each tab runs in its own web process. This is in contrast to Chrome, in which each website shares the same web process. I kinda think Chrome's approach is the best, but we don't have infrastructure to implement that right now. We do have infrastructure to set a Firefox-style process count limit. Setting the limit to four processes would be a simple GSettings change. Advantage: significant memory use reduction when many tabs are open Disadvantage: a single crashing tab will crash a quarter of your tabs, instead of only itself Thoughts? Michael