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disable tab animation

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there should be an option to disable the tab loading animation because it uses too much resources and crashes the whole thing? it should just have a red icon instead of the loading animation - if the page has loaded up, the red icon should dissapear also

/ff33.1.1, win7

there should be an option to disable the tab loading animation because it uses too much resources and crashes the whole thing? it should just have a red icon instead of the loading animation - if the page has loaded up, the red icon should dissapear also /ff33.1.1, win7

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cor-el
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That spinning loading icon shouldn't cause that much CPU load.

You can try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.

  • about:config page: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false

You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

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if you have 100+ tabs open and you add couple of loading ones, it will eventually crash with a frozen animation...