eoger / tabcenter-redux

Vertical Tabs extension for Firefox
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Tab icons cause excess memory usage #300

Open rnewman opened 6 years ago

rnewman commented 6 years ago
  1. Open a bunch of .jpg URLs.
  2. Open a new blank tab.
  3. Relaunch the browser.
  4. Observe that about:memory shows all of the cached images as occupying memory, even though the tabs are inactive.
  5. Observe that every page's favicon is kept in memory, too.

I'd like a mode where I can disable pre-fetching favicons for inactive tabs, and otherwise disable all the image work that Tab Center does; it's prohibitively expensive for large tab sets.

zeroibis commented 6 years ago

Does it still fetch the screenshot of the page even when set to minimal? It would make sense for it not to even bother to fetch a page image if it is not going to display it anyways.