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UnloadTabs (addons.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Allows you to manually unload all except one tab at will, or just unload them individually at will. Godsend if you have a low amount of RAM, still useful if you have a good amount of RAM in situations where you want to do resource intensive stuff without closing your tabs fully

Edit: Clarified that this extension lets you manually unload the tabs

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox already does this natively, has since like 121. It unloads tabs that you haven't accessed in a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Perhaps, but this allows you to do it instantly at will. Like if you only have 8GB of RAM or something (or even worse like 4GB), and RAM is getting tight, you can just right click on your current tab, and press "Unload other tabs", it unloads all but the current tab (except for pinned tabs, you usually need to unload those individually). Like I said not super necessary if you have high RAM like I do now (32GB), but just 2 years ago I still had 8GB, and just 5 years ago I had 4GB (single channel in both cases). This extension actually doesn't automatically do it AFAIK. It's only manual.