Energy saving tabs

[andrebatchelder]

I kinda like what Google Chrome did, and also Microsoft Edge. With energy saving tabs, basically. It puts tabs to sleep when you're not using the browser at a certain point. You can set them up for like 5 or 10 minutes at a time, or over 2 hours, if you're watching a movie or something like that. But I would love it if Firefox would add that to the system or not

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: Firefox should suspend tabs to better performance 

[okay_okay]

This would be great. 

[misterjuan]

RAM/CPU limiter on tab

Currently we have this about:memory , would be a great addition if we can control how much RAM a certain app/site consume a lot of RAM per tab (specially sketchy site with lots of process running in background).

Common workaround (specially on other browser) is they freeze that tab and reload it once it's active again, while it may work it sucks if you are doing something on that app/site and get's lost because you need to check your email then when you go back to that tab it gets reloaded.

I'm a web/app engineer i know some may say it can be solved by optimizing the site/app, well not all engineer are created equal... i can do that on my app but not sure on others 😉

[misterjuan]

i'm a user to this feature in chrome, i have relegated Firefox for purely development use. However not sure if putting a tab to sleep will work on some app that has user triggered event and and executed some background process. Will it suspend those? We have that kind of problem before on a ERP application we are using... it keeps reloading it not really ideal... perhaps anyone encountered such problem?

[div]

A more memory-efficient Firefox

Hey, I think it would be interesting to develop an automatic function so that the not visited tabs will put themselves in sleep mode after 2 minutes, and reactivate once you click on it, this would save a lot of memory because Firefox take a lot of memory and I cant add more memory on my PC.

Thank you, and have a nice day.

[Osahene]

Inactive Tabs Feature

I suggest that an inactive/sleep tab feature should be introduced. That is when many tabs have been open and then they are not in use for about five minutes, those tabs should automatically be switched off or made inactive. This can reduce the huge memory intake of inactive tabs and also optimize the speed of a PC or mobile phone.

#InactiveTabFeature

[user_mozilla]

Requested for new Firefox browser to make Browser faster: Tab sleep like Maxthon and Edge also for Google Chrome, Chromium, Firefox

Like Maxthon: Settings, Tabs, Tabs sleep: Checkbox: Tab Sleep (for inactive tabs): Snooze inactive tabs to save memory and make browser faster.

When this is on, inactive tabs will go to sleep after a specified time (1 minute ,5 minutes of inactivity) to save system resources.

Link: Add sleep

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1402806

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Jon]

Related idea here: Identify which tabs are using high memory or CPU 

[Net_Hunter_90s]

Upvoted your post. I am after firefox team since 2018 to get this thing on after using the tab suspender on chrome and chromium browsers with ease. I feel sad to see firefox not adopting rightful things for people using firefox for browsing purposes. Few tabs open and firefox shows high level of memory usage and many times more than chrome and edge.

[raterizer]

I liked this idea, i though it should have been there already as Chrome and Edge has this feature for year or two.

[Net_Hunter_90s]

Firefox is not seeing chrome and edge. This should be in-built by now. Other browsers have it. I am using Zen browser, based on Firefox, which has it in-built.