Reviews for Load Background Tabs Lazily
Load Background Tabs Lazily by kgersen
41 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by newsjunkie247, 6 years agoEdited since I found the email contact. I've gone back to using an old load tabs progressively extension which seems to partially work but ideally I'd like to use something more up-to-date. I primarily just want to be able to load background tabs one at a time and have it work for all sites, including the new Twitter web experience (based on mobile.twitter.com). Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pouriya, 6 years agoHi, Each time I quit firefox the pausing feature disables and I have to click Pause Loading again. Why does this happen? Could you fix this?
Edit: Hey again! Thank you for your fast response and updating the extension. Yes I am using this extension instead of LoadTabOnSelect. To me it's easier to use and has more options (Now it's perfect and I don't need to have two add-ons installed at the same time). I have another problem. Maybe I don't know how to use the add-on but is there any option to change the state of all active tabs (except the one we are already using) into paused tabs like they have just been opened and then paused by the extension? This way system resources will be freed until we select the tab we want. Thank you again :)Developer response
posted 6 years agoYou could try using 'Auto Tab Discard'. It interferes very little with this extension. It can discard inactive tabs (removing much of them from memory) after a certain amount of seconds. Auto Tab Discard doesn't discard loading tabs, tabs with about:blank URLs (tabs blocked from loading by this extension have about:blank URLs), or tabs with moz-extension URLs (session proof tabs). It works best if the option 'Make new background tabs session proof' is selected, unless you close firefox down after loading all the background tabs.
However, please read the 'Known Issues' before using 'Auto Tab Discard'. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14146598, 6 years agoWorks great! Now my laptop's fan isn't blasting on full power since numerous tabs are being loaded progressively.
- Rated 5 out of 5by drlnielsen, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by velurr, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by truszcz, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kawzen, 6 years agoHello @kgersen,
Can you please add an option to add all failed to load tabs to the line again and start loading them
(if 20 tabs waiting to load in the line and my connection dropped all tabs will fail to load, the option to add them to the line again and start loading them will be very helpful as this situation unfortunately happens to me frequently)
Thanks again for this awesome extension!
Edit:
Thank you very much!
(The "Server not found" is correct but also for the same case I get this title "Problem loading page", you can switch browser to offline mode and try to navigate and you will get it)
I really appreciate your work ♥
Edit2:
I just found the option to change the specific title for the failed to load tabs, maybe it should accept multiple titles
Edit3:
Working great! I'm really very grateful :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Jezze, 6 years agoThis is just awesome! I missed Load Tabs Progressively very much and this is the perfect replacement. I regularly open more than 20 tabs at ones and without this great add-on some content is not loaded because the loading runs into a timeout. Now I just can limit the number of loading tabs to e.g. 3 and everything will be correctly loaded. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension, why such a functionality is not build into Firefox by default. Thank you sooo much!
- Rated 5 out of 5by hermawanadhis, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by meega, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mystera, 7 years agoA niche extension.., not needed for regular browsing, but very useful for "power" browsing. It's especially useful (a must!) for 'Snap Links Plus' users.
Thank You. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bout's Morgan, 7 years agoVery interesting, thanks kgersen.
Add on 2018 Feb. 24: Is it possible to change the colour of "L" and the same thing for the "tab count"? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13772605, 7 years agoAnother nice extension like "load on select" but this one can simulate better the old extension "load tabs progressively" using the hot key "alt+z". Would be great if you could customize the hot key or make like the same extension "load tabs progressively". BTW thank you very much.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe default extension hotkeys can't be changed right now. One way to work around this for Windows users is to download and install the AutoHotkey program. Create a file named Firefox.ahk and then copy the code at the bottom and paste it into the file. Place this file in the Startup folder and then run it. Now, if a user presses Win-G in a Firefox window, it will invoke this extensions Alt-Z pause hotkey. The Win-G hotkey can be changed in the file to whatever hotkey is desired ( https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm ).
$#g::
ifWinActive, ahk_exe firefox.exe
{
send !z ; Alt-Z extension pause hotkey
return
} else {
send #g ; Win-G hotkey
return
} - Rated 3 out of 5by Juanka Hula, 7 years agoThe idea is great but from the description it seems that it has a lot of issues that wouldn't make it useful at least to me how it's now. but I'll be looking forward for the fixes.
BTW when you say it's not supposed to work with session restoration or something like that; does that mean that when you restore a session with non loaded tabs from your addon they wont be able to be recovered? - Rated 5 out of 5by maverick, 7 years agoApparently working great!!!
I used to use Load Tabs Progressively and i missed it a lot!!!
Isn't there a way to avoid users to have to change about:config options manually???
That would be good
(i'm guessing a few will not use the addon just because of that...)