Hi,
I would like to share with you the only viable solution I found to use
WhatsApp web and have a browser almost always working.
This thread is a companion to this other one that shows how to stabilize Chromium.
My solution is:
1] Use Chromium as regular borwser and open all hundreds tabs
you need to keep open, there.
2] Start Firefox and run into it ONLY Whatsapp, than forget you have
Firefox up, just consider it to be a special purpose Whatsapp application.
I tested all the day of yesterday, WhatsApp never crashed and, AFAICsay
Firefox did not eat too much memory, I see two processes with 350M. Stable.
Chomium worked all the day. And occasionally hanged, as usual on some
specific pages. But no problem, kill that tab and reload. It will reload correctly
with very high probability.
RATIONALE:
1] Don't use Firefox as default browser, it is superfast, and personally
i like it, but it has some problems with memory management.
2] Don't use Chromium for WhatsApp web, it hangs super frequently there.
3] I tried other browsers,especially Iridium, but since last package version
of Chromium then hang rate of Iridium and Chromium is now comparable.
4] I prefer to stay with "popular browser" because I am doing web development
for large part of my days so I need absolutely to see pages as a large chunk
of people is seeing them.
I would like to share with you the only viable solution I found to use
WhatsApp web and have a browser almost always working.
This thread is a companion to this other one that shows how to stabilize Chromium.
My solution is:
1] Use Chromium as regular borwser and open all hundreds tabs
you need to keep open, there.
2] Start Firefox and run into it ONLY Whatsapp, than forget you have
Firefox up, just consider it to be a special purpose Whatsapp application.
I tested all the day of yesterday, WhatsApp never crashed and, AFAICsay
Firefox did not eat too much memory, I see two processes with 350M. Stable.
Chomium worked all the day. And occasionally hanged, as usual on some
specific pages. But no problem, kill that tab and reload. It will reload correctly
with very high probability.
RATIONALE:
1] Don't use Firefox as default browser, it is superfast, and personally
i like it, but it has some problems with memory management.
2] Don't use Chromium for WhatsApp web, it hangs super frequently there.
3] I tried other browsers,especially Iridium, but since last package version
of Chromium then hang rate of Iridium and Chromium is now comparable.
4] I prefer to stay with "popular browser" because I am doing web development
for large part of my days so I need absolutely to see pages as a large chunk
of people is seeing them.