Multi-account-containers: Load the tabs on-demand when a container is shown?
When Firefox starts not all tabs are loaded: The websites are requested when needed.
On the other hand, when a container is shown, all tabs in this container will be loaded.
This makes using containers for tab management (#336) hard,
as it takes longer to switch between containers with many open tabs.
anfelor
All 8 comments
Probably the conservative course here would be to treat re-shown tabs the way we do on session restore. (blurred tabs inactive, pinned and focused tabs loaded)
johngruen
on 7 Apr 2017
Probably the conservative course here would be to treat re-shown tabs the way we do on session restore. (blurred tabs inactive, pinned and focused tabs loaded)
What other course is available?
smichel17
on 7 Apr 2017
Has there been any progress on this issue?
anfelor
on 25 Apr 2017
Sorry, no. There are other issues with more votes. We include issue #'s in our commit messages, so if we work on this one, it should automatically update this issue.
groovecoder
on 25 Apr 2017
This would be a most welcome addition indeed!
falolaf
on 2 May 2017
@SoftVision-PaulOiegas said in #290
Ok, but consider this scenario. You have lots of hidden pages in a specific container (eg: 50) and you want to open a new tab of that container. This means that all the hidden tabs are opened and loaded for just one new tab.
Wouldn't this affect A LOT the user experience and browser performance since it will take a lot of time to load each and every hidden page ? Because the add-on also loads the page content, not only displays them as the "Remember tabs and windows from last session" option does.
Also, probably the users will use the option to hide personal tabs because he doesn't want others to see those tabs. Forcing all of them to be opened when user opens a new tab will automatically expose those tabs.
In my opinion, none of this is right, but hey, maybe it's just me...
jonathanKingston
on 26 May 2017
I have not observed this issue. Was the enhancement request fulfilled?
grahamperrin
on 3 Oct 2017
@grahamperrin It has not been fullfilled in my case at least. All tabs are loaded when a container is unhidden.
falolaf
on 4 Oct 2017
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@SoftVision-PaulOiegas said in #290
Ok, but consider this scenario. You have lots of hidden pages in a specific container (eg: 50) and you want to open a new tab of that container. This means that all the hidden tabs are opened and loaded for just one new tab.
Wouldn't this affect A LOT the user experience and browser performance since it will take a lot of time to load each and every hidden page ? Because the add-on also loads the page content, not only displays them as the "Remember tabs and windows from last session" option does.
Also, probably the users will use the option to hide personal tabs because he doesn't want others to see those tabs. Forcing all of them to be opened when user opens a new tab will automatically expose those tabs.
In my opinion, none of this is right, but hey, maybe it's just me...