Simple-tab-groups: Tabs reload on group change

[Thor77]

I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour, but once I change to another group, all tabs in this group reload.
This will probably kill some browsers for groups with too many tabs.
If it's desired/expected behaviour, please consider adding an option to disable it.

[Drive4ik]

At the moment, the Firefox WebExtensions API does not support hiding tabs, only closing ... I also do not like it, but I have no choice.
When this feature is added, I will make it support.
Thanks for your feedback!

[Drive4ik]

let the task be opened so that people read

[youk]

Thanks for a nice extension!
Are you aware of an experimental way of hiding tabs? I am wondering if you can employ it. It works for Conex.

[ghost]

Is there a way to suspend the tabs after they begin reloading? Or make them inactive somehow?
Most annoying are youtube tabs that all start playing video and I have to go through each one and pause the video. All while everything is still loading and using lots of CPU making firefox or the video very unresponsive.

Maybe you can insert js into the pages to stop video playback? (There is an API for that, tabs.executeScript()...)

[pitchum]

In about:config setting media.autoplay.enabled to false may help.

[ghost]

@pitchum Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that applied to youtube! One major pain less :)

[Zeioth]

An option to not load the content of all tabs when you change group would be awesome.

Maybe something like

• "When I choose a group, show all tabs, but load only the content of the tab I clicked on the dropmenu".
• Or, "Show all tabs of the group I clicked, but load only the last tab"

[dtrckd]

+1 for this feature, whose its lack prevent me for actually switching between groups...

[rdhia]

I think there is already a way to not load tabs. because firefox configured to open last opened tabs, and when it starts only the active tab is loaded the others are not. that should be in the internal firefox session manager
there isn't already some option in the api tabs or window loading?

[lucascosti]

+1. Are we 100% sure there isn't a way to do this? We're not talking about hiding tabs here, just making sure the background tabs don't 'load' when switching groups. Like @dhia-eddine said, this is what happens when you initially open Firefox.

[ghost]

Go to Preferences > When Firefox Starts
Choose "Show your windows and tabs from last time"
If you have 4 tabs open, and close firefox, next time you start firefox only one tab loads, while others don't, though they're still there. So...
As dhia-eddine and lucascosti said, it can be done.
Please fix this, as this is a major drawback in the add-on.

[me21]

UPD: This plugin now can skip tabs reloading since version 2.1.

[dgutov]

Just a heads-up: the API, first version, has landed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725#c75

[Drive4ik]

This is just great news. 👍
I will soon release an experimental version that supports this API!

[Drive4ik]

Closed. We will discuss in #2

[WolfganP]

Now that hide tabs functionality is being tested in FF, the ability to manually suspend/discard selected/all tabs would be a great complement feature to this extension, and be able to optimize the use of FF with many tabs without resorting to additional extensions (ie Tab Suspender)

Here's a sample of how it was implemented in a deprecated WE tab helper extension https://github.com/Allasso/WE_alltabshelper/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=discard&type=
Thanks!

PS: it's great to see that saving sessions with tab groups can be achieved via https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager/issues/201 as a complementary extension

[dgutov]

@WolfganP I think it would be better served by a separate, orthogonal extension. For instance, it could discard tabs after a certain timeout (time the tab has not been visible). It doesn't really need to know about groups for that.