I use FireFox tab groups (very helpful to organize tabs by topic). Only the tabs I'm currently interested in are active at startup and when switching. I don't know what FF does with the background tabs in groups, but I haven't yet encountered a problem. I have well over 30 tabs across all groups. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > I never have 30 tabs of anything open, but IceWM can spot a piggy website. > Most window managers have a taskbar applet like top, but IceWM resource > meter is simple and standard. Several resources can be monitored including > CPU and network activity. Not only are some sites CPU and memory pigs, but > they try do a lot of network snooping using RPC. And some colorful bars on > the applet light up. > > I usually start my browser with an XTerm, so my browser (SeaMonkey) leaves > some helpful error messages. I'm sure a script could be invoked to tee and > pipe StdErr. A decent browser should detect many such problems. > > Certainly not great detective work. Just something simple I like. > > Yeah, crazy world. > > Brian Wood wrote: >> >> Normally, I can have 30 or more tabs open in Firefox and >> the top command will report that Firefox is taking less than >> 2% of the cpu. Sometimes though, I'll run top and Firefox >> is taking more than 25% and so I'll close several of my tabs >> in an effort to find the one or so that are hogging resources. >> Are there any cpu monitoring tools I could configure to pop >> up when a process has taken a given percentage of cpu >> over a certain length of time? Tia. >> >> And a reminder: Some have said, "Nothing good happens >> after midnight." That's one thing that crossed my mind >> when watching the news about the tragedy in Colorado. >> I'm disliking Warner Brothers for encouraging people to go >> to a movie at that hour. I don't remember the details of >> Cinderella, but something about turning into a pumpkin if >> she didn't get home by midnight. >> >> >> Shalom, >> Brian Wood >> Ebenezer Enterprises >> http://webEbenezer.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list