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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] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never get why people nee things like this. You know there are things called bookmarks so you can come back to the same page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I use bookmarks for stuff I may want to access later (as in another day), not stuff I want to access within a few hours. If I used bookmarks for everything my bookmarks would be even more inflated and unorganized than they currently are. I'm not one of those people who keeps hundreds of tabs open for weeks on end, I just have a habit of opening tens of them each day. I usually close my tabs once or twice a day anyway.

Also if you have a low amount of RAM (which there are some that still do), you may not want to only have 2 tabs open at once. Sometimes it's much more convenient to just leave stuff open.

You do have a bit of a point though. I could start using bookmarks instead of pinned tabs for some things, and I guess a good bit of it boils down to me being unorganized.

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