Don't load all tabs at once?
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Don't load all tabs at once?
When I try to "Open All in Tabs" from a bookmark folder, all tabs load at once. Is there a way to open all the tabs but only load if selected? Basically, the same way "Restore Previous Session" works.
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
Enter "about:config" (without the quotes) in the location bar and press Enter. Enter "loadinbackground" in the filter field and, if necessary, double click on the entry for "browser.tabs.loadInBackground" to set it to "false".
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
I changed it to false but that doesn't work!DanRaisch wrote:Enter "about:config" (without the quotes) in the location bar and press Enter. Enter "loadinbackground" in the filter field and, if necessary, double click on the entry for "browser.tabs.loadInBackground" to set it to "false".
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
When set to false, what this actually does is jump to the tab opened from a link via the mouse middle click or left-click open in new tab.DanRaisch wrote:Enter "about:config" (without the quotes) in the location bar and press Enter. Enter "loadinbackground" in the filter field and, if necessary, double click on the entry for "browser.tabs.loadInBackground" to set it to "false".
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
Maybe there is an add-on for this, or maybe not yet?
Firefox 63 added the ability for extensions to create a new tab in a "discarded" state, meaning "unloaded" or not using any resources. Someone created a demo of how it can be used to restore previous session tabs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... 2000_tabs/
Firefox 63 added the ability for extensions to create a new tab in a "discarded" state, meaning "unloaded" or not using any resources. Someone created a demo of how it can be used to restore previous session tabs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... 2000_tabs/
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
And then also the question as to whether bookmarks are opened the same way.
His 500 tabs does open much quicker then my 400 tabs (SeaMonkey, regular Profile, with extensions, including NoScript & uBlock), though I still open in a quite reasonable amount of time (just not as quick as his demo).
His 500 tabs does open much quicker then my 400 tabs (SeaMonkey, regular Profile, with extensions, including NoScript & uBlock), though I still open in a quite reasonable amount of time (just not as quick as his demo).
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
The extension Load Background Tabs Lazily sort of does this. It caps the number of tabs to load concurrently (1-5).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... bs-lazily/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... bs-lazily/
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Re: Don't load all tabs at once?
Very nice find... and thanks for posting back about this.
As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!