[Feature Request] Temporarily disable

rNeomy / auto-tab-discard

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

https://webextension.org/listing/tab-discard.html

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[Feature Request] Temporarily disable #294

Closed lonix1 closed 1 year ago

lonix1 commented 2 years ago

It would be nice to have a switch that temporarily disables discarding.

For example, you load a bunch of tabs, and you have a poor wifi connection - e.g. you're getting on a plane, train, etc. You don't want those tabs to be discarded.

So we could click on a "temporarily disable" button, which lasts for x hours (configurable).

(The workaround is to disable the extension completely, which is a bad way to do it.)

CTimmerman commented 2 years ago

Isn't that what the "Keep tabs for this session" checkbox does in the add-on icon menu?

lonix1 commented 2 years ago

Not really:

that keeps the tabs for the session's duration - in my case I sometimes don't restart the browser for weeks
I'm referring to a way to disable discarding completely - all tabs, all domains

selurvedu commented 1 year ago

@lonix1 @rNeomy TYSM! I really needed this for exactly the same use case!