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JustOff / lull-the-tabs

Lull The Tabs - unload inactive tabs to free up browser memory
https://justoff.github.io
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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suspend tab rather than unloading #13

Closed rofl0r closed 4 years ago

rofl0r commented 4 years ago

hi, i'm more concerned about CPU usage by inactive tabs doing javascript stuff (maybe bitcoin mining or rowhammer?) in the background than memory usage. actually i was looking into getting this firefox plugin https://github.com/piroor/suspendtab to work and was looking for example code to make its config dialog work when i encountered your extension.

what do you think about adding an option to pause/suspend execution of a tab instead of unloading it to lull-the-tabs?

i'd actually like every tab to be immediately paused as soon as it gets inactive, so maybe the configuration item to enter the interval could allow floats rather than just ints so one could enter e.g. 0.1...

JustOff commented 4 years ago

what do you think about adding an option to pause/suspend execution of a tab instead of unloading it

This is an interesting idea for a new extension, but I'll leave it to someone else :wink: