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kesselborn / conex

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Ability to discard (unload) tabs from memory #319

Closed nekohayo closed 4 years ago

nekohayo commented 5 years ago

There is currently only one other "interesting" TabGroups replacement extension besides Conex: "Simple Tab Groups"... and I was impressed to see one feature it has in particular: it lets you "discard" tabs (that is, not only hide them but also unload them from memory), either individually or as a group, either manually or automatically when switching groups.

The automatic aspect/setting might be desired by some users, or seen as too extreme, in which case the ability to manually discard a group's tabs (they remain there in the group but they stop consuming resources) is attractive. It can be shown as a button in Conex's tab switcher dropdown menu thingy, maybe between the + and the X (delete group) buttons.

ScottRFrost commented 4 years ago

I use https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html along with Conex and it works great

kesselborn commented 4 years ago

yup: what @ScottRFrost says: this should be handled by a dedicated Add-On and the one mentiones has fantastic options. Cheers