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aghorler / LoadTabOnSelect

Load newly-opened background tabs in Firefox on selection, rather than automatically in the background.
Apache License 2.0
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Load Progressively #2

Open maverick74 opened 6 years ago

maverick74 commented 6 years ago

I know that this is probably out of the scope of the extension, but instead of just the option to load on select would be good to have an option to allow load of just X Tabs Progressively.

e.g.: it we open 10 tabs at once, it would just load 3 tab each time.

there is no W.E. doing this...

aghorler commented 6 years ago

Can you clarify this request? I don't fully understand it.

Are you saying that you want the ability to load multiple additional tabs (number = x) on the selection of one unloaded tab?

I guess that could be implemented, but it is a bit out-of-scope.

maverick74 commented 6 years ago

Hi.

the idea is the same as this: Load Tabs Progressively

thing is: no one wants to port it, apparently. :(

This is an extremely useful addon, since i always load near 20 tabs at once.

Having them all loading at once takes enormous time and they almost end up loading at the same time. If they load progressively (3 at a time, for example) it would allow one to rapidly be able to start it's work on one of those 3 tabs (since all resources are focused on those 3 it will load them faster, only when one of those 3 are loaded it gets to the next one).

It's a bit out-of-scope and i honestly don't know it it's even possible with WE. Even if it is, i don't know if a dedicated addon just for that isn't the best choice. Anyway, it an important feature :)

aghorler commented 6 years ago

I'll look into porting it to another addon.

This addon (LoadTabOnSelect) doesn't completely prevent a lab from loading, but rather it lets a tab load for just long enough for its URL to be determined, and then redirects it to a local page.

On initial thought, it does seem possible to implement what you're requesting in WE (keeping in mind that it wouldn't completely "prevent" a tab from loading. Just "stop" it.).

maverick74 commented 6 years ago

Great!

If you're able to do the port, could you please drop me a line/link here? :)

thanks :)