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pradeep-mishra / tab_suspender_firefox

A very lightweight tab suspender that reduces an overall memory usage of firefox, uses firefox native discard api
MIT License
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Option for choosing if tab should be unsuspended automatically when it is visited #5

Closed IlyaOrson closed 2 years ago

IlyaOrson commented 4 years ago

First of all, thank you for this extension. It is incredibly useful!

I find fairly common to have many tabs open and switch between neighbouring tabs quickly with Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + Shift + Tab or shortcuts like that. Reloading intermediate suspended tabs while moving like this makes this workflow cumbersome. It becomes necessary to use a tab manager but it is also not as snappy. It would be nice to be able to visit suspended tabs without necessarily reloading them for this purpose.

The chrome extension called The Great Sustender allows this as an option where the user reloads explicitly the tab with a click or a refresh. Maybe something like this would be a worthwhile addition?

pradeep-mishra commented 4 years ago

I have used Firefox extension's native discard API, where we do not have control to over un-suspend the tab, it automatically does it whenever we visits the tab. The Great Suspender do not rely on that API, it just take a snapshot and load that image in that tab and onclick again reload the URL which was there on that tab.