Tab Mix Plus

Hello,

As the "Tab Mix Plus" plugin is often used by people heavily relying on tabs, I think it would be a good idea to add an "Unload Tab" feature to let users ease on computer resources. One possible way to access this feature could be by right-clicking a tab and choosing the "Unload" option.

Thanks!

What's 'Unload'?

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In Firefox 4 it is possible to set the option "browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs" in about:config to 0 (zero), so when one opens the browser with lots of tabs saved from the last session, only the currently selected tab actually loads, all other don't and remain not loaded, thus not taking memory, not running their javascript code, flash and etc - they remain in "inactive" state until one is being clicked - then it goes active and loads its content. By "unloading" I mean making a tab that is in "active" state go inactive and thus free the memory it consumes, stop running its javascript, flash, etc.

Seconded.

This is/was a feature of BarTab/UnloadTab or something. This would make TMP perfect.

Thirded.

The add-ons that add 'Unload Tab' to the tab context menu seem to all be going away. FF will keep them from loading initially, and I don't care about unloading tabs after an inactivity timeout, I just want to be able to unload the occasional misbehaving tab.

This is the only feature I know of that I would like to add to Tab Mix Plus. Thanks for the hard work!

I'm "fourthing" this suggestion. I routinely have so many tabs in my FF session now that I could really use the Unload Tab feature. Could the Developers consider adding this?

Staskorz described it very well: By "unloading" I mean making a tab that is in "active" state go inactive and thus free the memory it consumes, stop running its javascript, flash, etc.

Thanks much!

try this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ound-tabs/

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I tried this and it works nice. But it has one big disadvantage: It suspends background tabs immediately with no time delay. This is something unfortunately I can't use.

I'm "fifthing"

for the time being, I use the above addon

I LUUURVE TabMixPlus and am a long-time user, but I have temporarily switched to Tab Utilities because TMP is missing this feature, called "Restart Tab" / "Restart All Tabs" in Tab Utilities.

You'd totally make my (new) year if you included this feature!

Would also be nice to have the option to have newly-opened background tabs start out in the unloaded state, either as a setting for certain tab sources, or as a separate, new menu item called something like, "Open link in unloaded tab."

tab utilities has this option?

gonna try to extract the code and add it to TMP

this is the code

There's also an [Experimental] add-on called Dormancy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... y/reviews/) that claims to 'retire' long unused background tabs (sort of a reverse tabs on demand). It sort of works, but alas, it has at least one killer quirk in that it renames tabs with nondescript gobbledegook like "data:text/html...xyz</title>".

As far as I can tell, Dormancy and Suspend-Backgrounds perform different tasks. If the developers of the two could co-operate to produce a single 'killer' add-on, it could produce a significant performance boost. It would be nice to see this sort of functionality incorporated into Mozilla Firefox proper. For all the tinkering they've done with Firefox v4.0, it's still a lumbering beast when it has a tab clogged session running for more than an hour or two (especially when using TMP's otherwise superior session manager).

Thanks @onemen for the above tip by the way. It has definitely sped up my browser no end. I suspect that their may be some blow back for certain fringe cases where I actually want background tabs to continue executing 'actions'. That said, I haven't found one yet.