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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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Does not seem to work - what might be the reason? #396

Closed otraupe closed 1 month ago

otraupe commented 1 month ago

I am a tab messy and have 10 GB worth of Firefox open. :D

So I installed this add-on, left all the settings on defaults, and waited the 60 min. Nothing observable happened regarding RAM consumption in the Windows task manager.

What could be the reason?

otraupe commented 1 month ago

Do I need to restart Firefox? Do I need to reload the tabs first, so they are active?

A little more guidance would be appreciated. :)

otraupe commented 1 month ago

Turns out I didn't leave everything on default. I set hostnames to discard. And the hostname for youtube is www.youtube.com The domain youtube.com does not work. Would probably need a regex for that.

otraupe commented 1 month ago

Turns out I didn't leave everything on default. I set hostnames to discard. And the hostname for youtube is www.youtube.com The domain youtube.com does not work. Would probably need a regex for that.

otraupe commented 1 month ago

Would be great if domain or wildcard *.youtube.com would work. Otherwise great piece of software!