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autonome / Dormancy

Firefox add-on that frees inactive tabs from memory, restoring their contents next time you access the tab.
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Support for whitelisting of domains #7

Closed brainstorm closed 5 years ago

brainstorm commented 6 years ago

I wish some sites could be spared from being forced to sleep... I just lost some form data because of it :/

Keith94 commented 6 years ago

I support this... @autonome Is this feature planned?

autonome commented 6 years ago

This is #2 on my list, just behind configurable timeout for sleep.

Grossdm commented 6 years ago

@autonome, I'm also interested in a whitelist.

Disclosure: I am using a different addon with the same goal. I just found this one! 😀

Specifically, a feature that I really would like is to whitelist moz-extension tabs.

Do you know if this possible? A problem a have frequently is editing a userstyle with Stylus. I hate losing edits to sleepy tabs. I think Stylus unintentionally causes a user (with a dormant tab addon) to lose edits because their addon shows live changes in a tab that matches the userstyle currently being edited.

TIA

autonome commented 6 years ago

Hey everyone!

I was thinking about what a reasonable user experience for this would be.

What do you think about a tab context menu option? Eg, "Always keep tabs from this domain alive" with a checkmark, or something like that?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:13 PM grossdm notifications@github.com wrote:

@autonome https://github.com/autonome, I'm also interested in a whitelist.

Disclosure: I am using a different addon with the same goal. I just found this one! 😀

Specifically, a feature that I really would like is to whitelist moz-extension tabs.

Do you know if this possible? A problem a have frequently is editing a userstyle with Stylus https://github.com/openstyles/stylus. I hate losing edits to sleepy tabs. I think Stylus https://github.com/openstyles/stylus unintentionally causes a user (with a dormant tab addon) to lose edits because their addon shows live changes in a tab that matches the userstyle currently being edited.

TIA

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Grossdm commented 6 years ago

Hello @autonome,

I checked on the similar addon that I'm using now - I only use it on Windows, and I'm with my tablet now.

FYI, it is Auto Tab Discard. The dev has it in a GitHub repo also.

The other dev, rNeomy, has a few options via context menu, including "whitelist the domain" (I don't recall the wording). I don't think the options are clear with Auto Tab Discard, and I don't think they behave consistently (probably user error with that).

In fact, I think I was in the middle of opening a issue with the addon but I accidentally "discarded" the GitHub tab! IIRC, using his various options via context menu is what got me. In the one instance that I tried to use a harmless menu option, it wasn't available: not greyed out but missing so I clicked the same location on the menu but his options had changed. I think every tab took a dive, despite his unclear whitelist.

I'm sure that's more than enough about someone else's addon, but I thought my experiences with it might help you since you seem to be in a more planning stage of development.

Thanks very much if you're read this far,

Doug®