Reviews for Tab Unloader
Tab Unloader by Afnan Khan
26 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13197014, a year agoTab Unloader working just fine with all previous versions of Firefox up to 118 (on Arch Linux).
Usefull settings and default settings, ie: time to auto-unload; visually shows which tabs are un/loaded; don't unload tab that's playing Audio...
Also works fine with Tree Style Tab. - Rated 5 out of 5by masatami, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by rjt, 2 years agoBefore opening Firefox, is there some way to tell Firefox to tell "Tab Unloader" to open all tabs unloaded?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ahmed, 3 years agoStill works. I actually use this only for the option to load a whole bookmark folder unloaded.
Would be great if there were shortcuts like ALT + Click on a link to open it in the background. Context menu item to open link in background unloaded also lacks a keyboard shortcut. - Rated 5 out of 5by jamvaru, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ded-doed, 3 years agoMore useful than Auto Tab Discard for me, because Tab Unloader correctly counts the time before automatic tab unloading from the moment the tab was last active / in the foreground before the user switched to a different tab. Auto Tab Discard, in my testing, counts the time since the tab was first opened or last loaded back from the unloaded state, which is quite inconvenient.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16677902, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vitalii Makarchenkov, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Haven667, 4 years agoFor me the best extension of its kind. It has all the features I need, but without any bloat. Simple and clear options dialog. An option to "bypass the cache on restore", like the old "Auto Unload Tab" extension (pre-Quantum), would be really nice. At the moment I use the extension "Update Discarded Tab On Select" for this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11233054, 5 years agoHe estado haciendo pruebas y ahora mismo funciona mejor que UnloadTabs, además tiene más opciones y un botón para no tener que dar clic derecho sobre las pestañas cada vez que quieras descargarlas.
- Rated 5 out of 5by PConsole Otaku, 5 years agoThis is the only one that work perfectly as a tab hibernator on new Firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chocolord, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12700628, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12126833, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by White_Oz, 6 years agoThank you Afnan Khan, and good people at Mozilla.
I have not tested this extension yet because I still mainly use a version older than FF57("the Great Regression"), but give it 5 for encouragement. Every user of FF that uses more than 10 tabs in a session, needs an "auto unload tabs" functionality, like we need air.
After I have searched(2018) and read about/viewed screen shots (videos), of extensions that are able to unload(auto) tabs, I find this one to be the closest with the extension:"Auto Unload Tab by def00111" which does not work on FF after v56, but does a superb job on FF before 57, of unloading(auto too) tabs from multiple groups without using much CPU.
Hopefully Afnan Khan did not quit maintaining(or improving) this much needed add-on.
About the loosing of favicons of tabs it seems to be a bug of Firefox ("Most notably, tabs may loose their icons or display as loading. Fixing that is Mozillas job")...see more here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450382
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450371 - Rated 5 out of 5by Rascasse, 7 years agoUpdate reacts and unloads tabs much faster than previous version. "Must-have" extension for my ageing Mac, inclusion of menu item to unload tabs in other windows is welcome addition.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14164887, 7 years agoLooks like the CPU usage is within reason now. So, this is the best tab unloader with automatic background unloading I've found.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoCan you try the latest version and tell me if it still use all of your CPU? - Rated 5 out of 5by andrew, 7 years agoFF 59.0b12 (x64)
- Please, add support for the Tree Style Tab API (for the RMB-context menu on fake tabs).
- Please share your addon on github - to be able to write issues and pool requests.
- some tabs are not restored - its happen on tabs that you open in the background but don't get to before the tab unloads.
I see the same bug on auto-tab-discard addon, so its may be a FF bug - Rated 5 out of 5by Pixmi, 7 years agoThank you for your development, this addon fully meet my needs!
- Rated 5 out of 5by bfdd51, 7 years agoMust-Have addon!!
Works correctly on Nightly 59.
Unfortunately, "Auto Unload Tabs" function is so heavy. I anticipate that future improvement. - Rated 5 out of 5by Lej77, 7 years agoGreat addon! Unloads tabs to the same state as when Firefox is closed and reopened when it is configured to restore last session. Really appreciate that it has context menus on both the tab bar and on web sites and that both can be toggled on and off. Makes it usable when I hide the tab bar and use sidebars that work as replacements. Didn't really work correctly on Firefox 58 but it seems to work on Firefox Nightly 59 and I haven't noticed any issues with it yet!
- Rated 5 out of 5by scottrfrost, 7 years agoWorks as described and saves RAM.
Please add the ability to whitelist / exempt domains from auto-unload (for example to always keep gmail loaded).