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Use native tab discarding method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs

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How to verify that a tab has been discarded (OS: Windows 7, 64 bit; browser: Waterfox Current 2020.04)? #236

Open DomD48 opened 3 years ago

DomD48 commented 3 years ago

How to verify that a tab has been discarded (OS: Windows 7, 64 bit; browser: Waterfox Current 2020.04)?

acahill commented 2 years ago

This won't work for everyone, but I do this with the Tree Style Tab add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

You can add custom CSS in the settings, so I set it to make discarded tabs look greyed out and with italic text:

That doesn't do anything to the horizontal tabs of course, but maybe you could edit Firefox's userChrome.css to do something similar.

DomD48 commented 2 years ago

You mean I need a second add-on to verify that the first one is working properly?

acahill commented 2 years ago

Oh no, not at all, that's just how I do it (I'm a random person unconnected to the project.) I'm sure there is a much better way to do it via the addon itself, or if not, maybe they accept pull requests?