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kesselborn / conex

Firefox extension
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Are tabs suspended or greedy loaded? #256

Closed matijakovacevic closed 5 years ago

matijakovacevic commented 6 years ago

From https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/06/firefox-61-quantum-of-solstice

Extensions with the tabs permission can now hide and restore tabs on the browser’s tab bar. The hidden tabs are still loaded, they’re simply not shown.

So, are they all loaded upon browser start or not loaded until clicked on?

Thank you

kesselborn commented 6 years ago

Hey, I am kind of the wrong person to ask, as this is core Firefox functionality. From my observations, Firefox somehow optimizes Tab-loading and does not start all tabs on startup -- otherwise I wouldn't know, how that can be up in seconds when you have ~1000 Tabs.

Cheers