limi

http://i.imgur.com/hUNAo.jpg

We're ripping out that thing, and you're right that it is annoying. :)

smooth as butter for several hours. Then, after that, everything gets laggylaggylaggy

One thing we are considering is to unload tabs you haven't used in hours/days from memory, similar to how we restore background tabs on-demand when you restart.

I never know if Firefox is going to remember my tabs from last time or not.

Preferences -> General:

When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time

We like you too.

I don't think we'll be encouraging plugins at all, it's not something we believe is part of the web. It was a necessary evil back in the 90s, but browsers can do pretty much anything a plugin is capable of these days.