Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 • Hacker News Board

Re: Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

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Post by thro1 » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

agent327 wrote: post #278

thro1 wrote: post #277

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You can get this effect just by loading some document into the sidebar e.g. Show all bookmarks -> check Load this bookmark in the sidebar -> click that bookmark - I'm not sure how to do this easy in newer Firefox versions - with Browser Console maybe ? If you want full Side by side browsing mode: Some part of it is extremely easy - to display ALL tabs side by side: profile/chrome/userChrome.css : tabpanels { display:…

I'm not convinced that you fully understood the point of this idea. The point is not just to just have any two web pages sitting next to each other (this is what your modifications do, right?), but more importantly the interaction between those pages. I can already have two pages next to each other using Windows 10, by snapping two windows to the two sides of the screen. However, while that provides the correct visua…

That's exactly how Load this bookmark in the sidebar works, you can have any document loaded into the sidebar, clicking any link on it will result in replacing document in the active tab (the only one visible).

https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/728459 says about Side by side browsing mode which I see as: with any two tabs, the content of the default active/content-primary tab will be replaced by link clicked on the other visible tab.

Re: Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

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Post by hiq » Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #172

hiq wrote: post #104

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It sounds like you could just close these tabs once you switch to another one, or maybe have a timer on them so that they auto-close after N hours. There are probably extensions for that. I use very few bookmarks now, the ones I have are just for websites that may be hard to find, or simply the ones that I visit enough to want a quick suggestion when I start typing the URL. I almost never regret closing a tab, if I n…

> I use very few bookmarks now [...] if I need it I can find it again. I have thousands of Org files that include hundreds of thousands of references to sources of information, and I'm confused by your workflow. How do you quickly relocate sources of the highest quality information that aren't among the top search results for relevant queries (which is the result of search engine rankings mostly being popularity cont…

Maybe I should have written "web browser bookmarks"? I do use web links and put them in various places, just not in the browser where they lack context.

But still, maybe you end up with this unique link once in a while, and if it's that obscure, I find it worth exporting the page as pdf / html. My point is that in most cases, saving them (as bookmarks) is counter-productive.

> Why would I want to relocate that web forum and the other 452 sources of information in toilets.org the next time I buy a toilet?

Because they'll be outdated by then and you'll end up having to search again. If they're still relevant they'll resurface anyway. I find it hard to believe that your 452 sources all are and will remain better than the top 10 results of your search engine.

Re: Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

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Post by keithalewis » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 1:42 AM UTC

whatever1 wrote: post #102

keithalewis wrote: post #99

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I wish it was that easy. Destructing of your vectors does not guarantee that the memory will be released back to the OS, and it is not, if your OS is desktop Linux. See an example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26020580/huge-stdvectors...

This is not a problem a C++ compiler vendor can solve.