Reviews for Hide tabs
Hide tabs by Sergey Musiyenko
Response by Sergey Musiyenko
Developer response
posted a month agoHi Superposition,
**UPDATE 3**
Yep, I've seen it. Looks like there is some kind of bug in FF or they haven't implemented the same effect when unloading via APIs. Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't allow about:config overrides, so I'll add your suggestion to the description page and I'll try to get hold of FF devs.
Thanks!
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**UPDATE 2**
Feature request 2 implemented! Feel free to send a message via the Contact Form in the footer of my website if you have any questions!
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**UPDATE 1**
New option added – you can now choose to automatically unload hidden tabs.
This is off by default. You can enable it in the extension’s Preferences page (right click on the extension icon -> Manage Extension-> Preferences tab).
Unloading hidden tabs will free up memory, but keep in mind:
* Tabs will reload when you switch back to them.
* Any unsaved work in those tabs may be lost.
* Audio or running processes in hidden tabs will stop.
Use it only if you want to save memory and are okay with these limits.
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**ORIGINAL RESPONSE**
Thank you for the review!
I like this idea! Firefox automatically unloads inactive tabs when memory is low, but we could force this behavior for all hidden tabs. I'll perform a couple of tests to see if unloading will impact the restoration speed by a lot and based on this make this either flagged by default or not on the options page.
Stay tuned!
**UPDATE 3**
Yep, I've seen it. Looks like there is some kind of bug in FF or they haven't implemented the same effect when unloading via APIs. Unfortunately Mozilla doesn't allow about:config overrides, so I'll add your suggestion to the description page and I'll try to get hold of FF devs.
Thanks!
--
**UPDATE 2**
Feature request 2 implemented! Feel free to send a message via the Contact Form in the footer of my website if you have any questions!
--
**UPDATE 1**
New option added – you can now choose to automatically unload hidden tabs.
This is off by default. You can enable it in the extension’s Preferences page (right click on the extension icon -> Manage Extension-> Preferences tab).
Unloading hidden tabs will free up memory, but keep in mind:
* Tabs will reload when you switch back to them.
* Any unsaved work in those tabs may be lost.
* Audio or running processes in hidden tabs will stop.
Use it only if you want to save memory and are okay with these limits.
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**ORIGINAL RESPONSE**
Thank you for the review!
I like this idea! Firefox automatically unloads inactive tabs when memory is low, but we could force this behavior for all hidden tabs. I'll perform a couple of tests to see if unloading will impact the restoration speed by a lot and based on this make this either flagged by default or not on the options page.
Stay tuned!