What happened to UnloadTab?

[trieste]

Why is its Mozilla Addons page down?

[patrickjdempsey]

I would guess only the author could tell you. Maybe he just figured it's redundant to the new unloaded restored tabs behavior that comes stock since 9.0?

Edit: looks like Tab Utilities is able to do something similar:
http://tabutils.uservoice.com/forums/43 ... ns/2055827

[trieste]

The addon is back where it is. Thanks!

[patrickjdempsey]

Ahhhh.... typical AMO weirdness. If in doubt about anything happening on AMO, just give it 24 hours.

[sireddie]

Down again. Anyone know where I can download 0.22?

[yamaban]

Took me some searching, font version 0.2.2 in softpedia, link:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Firefox-Extensions/UnloadTab.shtml
text:
mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Firefox-Extensions/UnloadTab.shtml

[Barleyman]

I would guess only the author could tell you. Maybe he just figured it's redundant to the new unloaded restored tabs behavior that comes stock since 9.0?

Edit: looks like Tab Utilities is able to do something similar:
http://tabutils.uservoice.com/forums/43 ... ns/2055827

Unloading tabs from memory is AT LEAST as important as not loading them on startup. Hence unloadtab is anything but reduntant.

[patrickjdempsey]

It is redundant if you consider that you can unload tabs just by moving them to a different Tab Group.

[lithopsian]

For those that like to live on the edge:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /dormancy/

[trieste]

It is redundant if you consider that you can unload tabs just by moving them to a different Tab Group.

Is that a realistic workflow for those who only ever have a handful of tabs on their main window for visual access?

[patrickjdempsey]

I don't see how any of this relates to realistic workflow with only an handful of tabs. I've never seen a need for this running Firefox with a handful of tabs and the machines I run on are not even remotely close to being new or fast. I actually think reloading tabs when I switch to them would be somewhat disruptive, for instance any sites that currently don't handle session restore well (like ones with a Flash interface) would essentially break *during* the session, which would seem to defeat the entire purpose behind leaving a session open for a long time as opposed to just closing out. This would also break things like playing music in a background tab while browsing, or having a tab open with email set to give you alerts when you get new emails. Many sites expect the browser to be running concurrent things at once. It just seems to me that people are coming up with elaborate ways to get around using bookmarks.

[trieste]

No, I think this is about not being corralled into one specific way of managing tabs.

1) If used to using bookmarks, then use bookmarks.
2) If active user of Tab Utilities, then use the built-in reload function.
3) If not active user of Tab Utilities and want timer-based tab unloading, then use Dormancy.
4) If not active user of Tab Utilities and don't want timer-based tab unloading, then use UnloadTab.

[therube]

This is the URL I had for it, though it is not there now, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/.

Sure would be nice if AMO left some note as to an extensions whereabouts if it is pulled or otherwise moved.

Bug 675539 - Automatically unload (stall/hibernate) longly unused tabs to free RAM

[drexel75]

@therube Hey i was wondering the same thing as you! I found unload tab on an external page. apparantly mozilla isnt down with unload tab anymore even tho they still dont have the must have feature to manually unload tabs. Heres the links i found

Windows:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/I ... dTab.shtml

Mac:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-U ... dTab.shtml

[Noitidart]

Wow yeah thats so weird ive been looking for such an addon for awhile. Is there noting on mozilla addons site? only the softpedia site?