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TIL that on Firefox you can unload tabs from memory without closing them (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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The feature is called Tab Unloading, and weirdly enough they made it not easy to access despite its usefulness.

You basically have to type about:unloads in the address bar and hit enter. If you then click on "Unload", it will put the least used tabs to sleep. If you keep clicking that button until it's greyed out, you'll have unloaded all your tabs from memory.

This feature is handy if you want to temporarily switch to something that is memory hungry without having to close your 100 tabs.

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[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

What the hell are you working?

[-] anisphia@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago

Research :clueless:

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Right now?

Internal ticket tracker
Internal knowledge base system
OneNote with the actual knowledge base system because the knowledge base is never updated
Corporate emails
Client emails
Spam messages blocking system
Shift timetables
Engineer to English random acronym guide. Unless you know what ROD means.
O365 files
O365 online Word document
Software phone app
YouTube
PC parts picker website
Steam website
UPS live chat
Lemme

So a fair few. Although I can probably close the UPS live chat tab because I'm getting nowhere with these idiots.

[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

This reads like the dystopia in which every piece of software got replaces by a proprietary web application by some evil mega corp. What you need is at least a mail client and a word processor.

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