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glychee
New member
Status: In development

it would be very nice for us to be able to right click on a tab and just put the tab into sleep mode.

in these days everybody uses firefox browser with several tabs kept open. and some of the websites uses intensive javascript which loads the computer even when the tab is not active (most likely poor coded websites). i know there is a feature which automatically unloads (sleeps) inactive tabs but i dont like this feature because i dont want to pages contents refreshed even after several days of unused duration. firefox is really meets this requirement for me to keep the last look of a tab, not sleeping automatically.

but if i can just right click on a tab which makes my fans spin like crazy, and put the tab to sleep status until i need it in some time later, that would be awesome for me and for all firefox users.

the "manual sleep" button can be placed just inside the group of "reload tab", "mute tab", "pin tab" buttons in the right click menu of tabs.

i'm sure everybody will like this feature and hope this will be added in near future 🙂

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Jon
Community Manager
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Jon
Community Manager
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brixter
Making moves

I wish it could be done in a group. "Sleep all tabs".

secotioid
New member

Right-clicking on a tab should have options "Sleep this tab" and "Sleep other tabs." 

You can target a specific tab impacting performance, or focus performance on an active tab.

secotioid
New member

Right-clicking on a tab should have options "Sleep this tab" and "Sleep other tabs." 

You can target a specific tab impacting performance, or focus performance on an active tab.

victorchendra
New member

Yeah, I think we need this feature and so we don't need to install an extension.
Can't wait to see this feature 😆

Manuel36377
New member

Create a feature to put inactive tabs on sleep to save RAM, just like Microsoft has done in its Edge browser.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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

perladuenas1
Employee
Employee

Hi I'm Perla and I'm a product manger on the Performance team. This is actually now a possibility on Nightly. If you download the latest Firefox Nightly and right click on a tab you should be able to see the option to "unload tab." Please try it out and let us know how you like it! 

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glychee
New member

Hi Perla, thanks for embedding this feature and i'm very excited to test it now!

I'll deeply test this with unloading the cpu intensive tabs to see how we will gain performance for focused/active tab. i'll share the results here.

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Good news...

This is being worked on — check out @perladuenas1's recent post in the thread for more details and stay tuned for updates.

As always, we look forward to continuing to collaborate with you all here on Connect 🙌