<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Tony Mechelynck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com" target="_blank">antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How do you _get_ background tabs, other than by session restore?<br></blockquote><div>By opening tabs in the background while using the browser. The term "background" refers to tabs that exist but aren't currently selected.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
AFAIK, if you have a multitab homepage, then whenever you click the<br>
Home button, all its tab will be loaded together. It has happened to<br>
me on SeaMonkey, eating up 95% of the RAM and a good deal of the swap<br>
too (forover 500 tabs). What I do in that case is I wait some time (to<br>
avoid losing not-yet-started tabs) then restart the browser (e.g.<br>
using the "Restart Browser" extension), and _that_ consists of saving<br>
the current session then re-executing the program to restore the same<br>
session, thus respecting the session restore settings.<br>
<br>
So I try to avoid loading my multitab homepage and I use restart<br>
instead. If necessary via Safe Mode (in SeaMonkey, the "Help → Restart<br>
with Add-ons Disabled" menu brings up an are-you-sure dialog which<br>
includes a checkbox, "[x] Restart with Add-ons Disabled", so I can<br>
also use it to restart _out_ of Safe Mode. I've been told Firefox<br>
lacks that checkbox).<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Tony.<br>
<br>
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Judah Richardson<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:judahrichardson@gmail.com">judahrichardson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Tony, but I think that's for session restore. I'm referring to<br>
> managing new tabs in the background during regular browsing and preventing<br>
> them from being loaded until they're selected.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Tony Mechelynck<br>
> <<a href="mailto:antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com">antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Name: browser.sessionstore.max_<wbr>concurrent_tabs<br>
>> Type: Integer<br>
>> Values:<br>
>> <0 : All tabs can restore at the same time.<br>
>> =0 : Only the selected tab in each window will load. (If you<br>
>> switch tabs before it finishes loading, it will go on loading,<br>
>> together with the new "selected tab".)<br>
>> >0 : Only that many tabs can restore at the same time. (The<br>
>> browser will restore them all, but only that many at a time.)<br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> Tony.<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Judah Richardson<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:judahrichardson@gmail.com">judahrichardson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Problem: I have a Core i3 PC (& yes, I've maxed out the RAM to 8 GB)<br>
>> > that is<br>
>> > brought to its knees by heavy browsing sessions. I'm hoping to address<br>
>> > this<br>
>> > by preventing new tabs from loading in the background until they're<br>
>> > selected. However, I can't find any about:config setting for this, and<br>
>> > add-ons that claim to do the trick either look sketchy or have low rated<br>
>> > reviews.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Any ideas?<br>
>> ><br>
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