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troch taco, 3 jierren lynLoving the addon so far ! Been using it for months now and had zero bugs, it has simply just worked 100% of the time, which is amazing.
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
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- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch AntonDobrovinskiy, 18 dagen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Pontoporeia, 25 dagen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 14324124, ien moanne lyngreat ext. save my battery and ram.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch thajose, ien moanne lynBeen a Firefox user since it was an alpha release. I've never written a review for any extension until now. This extension made Firefox on Ubuntu usable for me again. I typically have several tabs opened at all time. After 12 or so, Firefox would become nearly unusable, particularly if any videos began playing in those tabs. Auto Tab Discard has made it to where I can have several dozen tabs open and everything runs fine. To the developer, thank you so much for this.
One thing I will point out is that the name is a bit misleading - No tabs appear to be discarded, thrown away, or deleted. They are just put in a suspended state and removed from active memory. At one time, I thought Firefox had a feature like this built in however, if that still exists, it no longer works very well. Auto Tab Discard is an absolute must for me now. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Michael Rabinovsky, ien moanne lynI think the description says it all, but I'll add that the benefits of this addon are immense, and it is amazing to me that it isn't built into the browser. This addon turned my old laptop from unusable to nice to browse on. In addition, as a heavy tabber with hundreds of tabs open, it allows me to run more memory-intensive software on my desktop without closing my browser.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Dfaure, ien moanne lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch NiGoDa, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 17564609, 2 moannen lynIt appears that the AI-powered tab grouping of Firefox keeps this extension from being effective.
You need to turn off 'Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups' in Settings > General.
The extension discards tabs more than Tab Unloading, a function of Firefox and is more flexible.
I still needs it. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch whatever, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Josy, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 18241146, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Shubham Soni, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch itscool, 2 moannen lynEdit: Options work perfectly now, it was problem on my end.
Useful for my potatoe, but the options do not take effect for me for some reason which would be super helpful otherwise. Thank you. Shall revise the review when I can get that working. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 17628517, 2 moannen lynGood, but firefox now has built-in tab discard/unload feature, so in fact you don't need this anymore.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch nerve static, 2 moannen lynReally helps conserve RAM and my aging device. Thanks! God Bless
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Nick, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch deigue, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19134316, 3 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch caam, 3 moannen lynWorks like it should.
The settings are a bit complicated.
I could have the option to have more than one set of criteria, before closing tabs. Eg. closing tabs after 20 min, when having more than 10 open, but also closing tabs after 10 min, when having more than 25 open. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Artem, 3 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Daniel Bednarski, 3 moannen lynIt works very well and what I like most is that the add-on behavior is very customizable.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch SuperPlasmaPea1, 3 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 18694712, 3 moannen lyn