Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by taco
Rated 5 out of 5
by taco, 3 years agoLoving the addon so far ! Been using it for months now and had zero bugs, it has simply just worked 100% of the time, which is amazing.
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
901 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18080258, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vinh Nguyen, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Or Schiro, 6 days agoLifesaver if you are working with dozens of tabs and tab groups.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13529995, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共恶魔, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13709385, 19 days agoYeah, apparently abandonware. Will NOT unload pinned tabs at browser startup, and no update since 2022. Three years? Come on!
- Rated 3 out of 5by GLOBBY, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sincerfor, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12564846, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ugarov, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15037318, a month ago---TO THE DEVELOPER:
CHECK THE 1 STAR REVIEWS, AS IT SEEMS THAT THIS ADDON DOES NOT WORK AS IT SHOULD? - Rated 5 out of 5by voskresenie, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Raj Roy, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dasdasda, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by simper66, a month agoThanks, thanks and thank, i was going to do it by myself because the rest of them are over complicated or under functional. I would have ended doing it more or less the same.
I miss a couple of things.
1/ A button or something to discard all new tabs opened since X time ago until now.
2/The opposite, something to start discarding all new tabs opened since right now until X time in the future, or until idle user detected or explicitly deactivated or similar.
3/ The auto trash is great but i strongly miss an option to send the tabs to somewhere before trashing them. A bookmark folder or wherever.
4/ Something to see what is happening under the hoods. Nothing special. Basically how much tabs are in the deactivation queue to see the speed of the thing.
5/ A panic mode. I mean, deactivating or even blocking you opening new tabs when certain thresholds are meet. This feature would be a killer. Cause you know, there is a no return point when the system freeze and it is too late to do anything.
Well, thanks again.
EDIT:
I guess another feature, a bit strange, but would be a killer, at least for me.
Imagine you are in duckduckgo searching for some python stuff and you open 30 related tabs. I would like to open all of them deactivated but the very first 5, and after reading and closing one of these opened ones, begin loading automatically one of the deactivated ones so i don't have to wait for it when reached.
A kind of "OPEN DEACTIVATED, BUT (X), AND TRY KEEP ACTIVE (Y) LEFT AND/OR RIGHT
Perhaps with the option of autoactivate a tab in the same domain? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18596858, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Avacado, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by iamdosgod, 2 months agogreat extension , i am using this extension over 2 years and my main reason switching from chrome to firefox
- Rated 4 out of 5by FFReviewAccount, 2 months agoGreat addon to save your computer resources. Low on RAM or want to cut back your CPU usage, try this addon. Will suspend tabs in the background, freeing up RAM and using less CPU resources.
4/5 stars because there is one small bug that if you click on a discarded tab right after it's discarded, the page will fail to load. Fixed by a quick refresh. - Rated 5 out of 5by EarOfWheat, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 依云, 2 months ago