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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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Firefox does this automatically to prevent crashing. There's no real reason to unload tabs manually. If your operating system or Firefox needs more memory, then it will unload the tabs automatically. Unused ram is wasted ram. Don't be scared by ram usage going up, it gets freed on demand.
No, only into your display name.
There are reasons, and there are addons that allow you to unload tabs via their right click menu.
For me it is a way to keep tabs in a window for organization without them using cpu. In some sense it's like replacing tabs with bookmarks that integrate into the browser like tabs.