Reviews for Tab Unloader
Tab Unloader by Afnan Khan
50 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 10442664, 6 years agoDoes what it says on the tin. Seems to be the only unloading extension out there that does it on a timer.
Would like an option to disable the recently-added favicon replacing though - the pink blotches are unsightly and, for those who already have styling set up around unloaded tabs, unnecessary. The extension also fails to retrieve favicons of unloaded tabs after a browser restart / session restore, so you end up with a bunch of "default" icons with pink circles on them.
Would also be nice if it integrated with Tree Style Tab, so its menu options show up on the side tabs as well. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12994318, 6 years agoSometimes it can't load unloaded tab giving New Tab
- Rated 4 out of 5by Juanka Hula, 6 years agoGreat addon. Sadly the developer never answers the feedback sent to the mail provided.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rascasse, 6 years agoUpdate reacts and unloads tabs much faster than previous version. "Must-have" extension for my ageing Mac, inclusion of menu item to unload tabs in other windows is welcome addition.
- Rated 4 out of 5by capdiem, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14164887, 6 years agoLooks like the CPU usage is within reason now. So, this is the best tab unloader with automatic background unloading I've found.
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posted 6 years agoCan you try the latest version and tell me if it still use all of your CPU? - Rated 4 out of 5by kaz4ikeda, 7 years agoUseful addon to reduce memory usage. Also I can avoid some web sites keeping watching my access.
One inconvenience: Favicons of unloaded tabs are lost in restarted Firefox. - Rated 4 out of 5by Alexander Martinez, 7 years agoI really like it, it's very useful. But the tab context menu don't work with Tree Style Tab. Please fix that. Thanks
- Rated 5 out of 5by andrew, 7 years agoFF 59.0b12 (x64)
- Please, add support for the Tree Style Tab API (for the RMB-context menu on fake tabs).
- Please share your addon on github - to be able to write issues and pool requests.
- some tabs are not restored - its happen on tabs that you open in the background but don't get to before the tab unloads.
I see the same bug on auto-tab-discard addon, so its may be a FF bug - Rated 3 out of 5by jadams, 7 years agoThere should be options such as "Don't suspend tabs playing video", "Don't suspend pinned tabs", "Don't suspend tabs with a form unsend". These there would be enough actually.
- Rated 3 out of 5by CemKey, 7 years agoПочему у большинства выгруженных вкладок не отображаются иконки?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13779429, 7 years agohad no effect for me. obviously no working bulk unload extension exists :-(
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13379668, 7 years agoDoes not work. Looking at about:memory, after "unloading" a tab, I can still see it in memory.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pixmi, 7 years agoThank you for your development, this addon fully meet my needs!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12645436, 7 years agoit's ok, but can we get "keep tab loaded" or "keep this site loaded" option?
- Rated 5 out of 5by bfdd51, 7 years agoMust-Have addon!!
Works correctly on Nightly 59.
Unfortunately, "Auto Unload Tabs" function is so heavy. I anticipate that future improvement. - Rated 5 out of 5by Lej77, 7 years agoGreat addon! Unloads tabs to the same state as when Firefox is closed and reopened when it is configured to restore last session. Really appreciate that it has context menus on both the tab bar and on web sites and that both can be toggled on and off. Makes it usable when I hide the tab bar and use sidebars that work as replacements. Didn't really work correctly on Firefox 58 but it seems to work on Firefox Nightly 59 and I haven't noticed any issues with it yet!
- Rated 3 out of 5by batrand, 7 years agoExactly what I'm looking for, but it's not totally working. When I choose Unload Other Tabs, only some of them are unloaded, the rest are unaffected.
- Rated 1 out of 5by CanIregisterThisTime, 7 years agoIt doesn't work. It did when I first started using it, and even then it gave no indication of whether or not a tab was loaded. The problem has persisted through the last update, too, so I'm not sure what's going on.
- Rated 5 out of 5by scottrfrost, 7 years agoWorks as described and saves RAM.
Please add the ability to whitelist / exempt domains from auto-unload (for example to always keep gmail loaded). - Rated 5 out of 5by nttee1, 7 years agoWork like a charm! Finaly there is one that work with ff 58. You save my day man. By the way could you can make a keyboard shortcut or a button to unload tab. Expect on next release. Thanks and regards.