Release memory when tabs closed

[coladict]

I've come up with this radical new idea: What if we don't keep all historical tabs loaded in memory all the time, but we expire them after a minute and just remember the url or something?

That might reduce the response time for clicking to pause a youtube video down to four seconds.

[Jon]

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[LMR]

FWIW Vivaldi has a feature that allows exactly for this: IOW the link and the "static" page remains in your tab but as you "pause" it the browser engine frees all its memory.

Somewhat unrelated but could be implemented in the same way, they also have a "Break mode" setting for the whole browser. It's like disconnecting the interenet 🙂 Nice idea too.

With regard to having a lighter browser I think this feature mentioned by coladict is important. Also having a smaller footprint means less attack vectors 😉

Thanks

[LMR]

Just for correctness the Vivaldi feature I mentioned is called the tab hibernate one. Thank you team

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/tab-features/#Hibernating_Tabs

[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard