AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦Sep 6, 2023

TIL that on Firefox you can unload all tabs from memory without closing them

https://lemmy.world/post/4536652

TIL that on Firefox you can unload all tabs from memory without closing them - Lemmy.world

The feature is called Tab Unloading [https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/tabunloader/], and weirdly enough they made it not easy to access despite its usefulness. You basically have to type about:unloads in the address bar and hit enter. If you then click on “Unload”, it will put the least used tabs to sleep. If you keep clicking that button until it’s greyed out, you’ll have unloaded all your tabs from memory. This feature is handy if you want to temporarily switch to something that is memory hungry without having to close your 100 tabs.

Show threadEcho DotSep 6, 2023

I’m pretty sure that Chrome does this automatically. When I work I usually need about 98,000 tabs open at a time and often I don’t actually click any of them but I need them.

Anyway I will often open a tab and have to wait to it for it to load. But I’ve played around with it and I don’t seem to be able to get consistent results so I’m not sure what parameters it’s using.

Show threadDataprolet
What the hell are you working?
Sep 6, 2023 at 7:10amWeb
Show threadanisphiaSep 6, 2023
Research :clueless:
Show threadEcho DotSep 6, 2023

Right now?

  • Internal ticket tracker
  • Internal knowledge base system
  • OneNote with the actual knowledge base system because the knowledge base is never updated
  • Corporate emails
  • Client emails
  • Spam messages blocking system
  • Shift timetables
  • Engineer to English random acronym guide. Unless you know what ROD means.
  • O365 files
  • O365 online Word document
  • Software phone app
  • YouTube
  • PC parts picker website
  • Steam website
  • UPS live chat
  • Lemme

So a fair few. Although I can probably close the UPS live chat tab because I’m getting nowhere with these idiots.

Show threadDataproletSep 7, 2023
This reads like the dystopia in which every piece of software got replaces by a proprietary web application by some evil mega corp. What you need is at least a mail client and a word processor.