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> "Suspending unused tabs" I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.

revskill 7y ago
On Chrome, i use the Great Suspender which does the trick. It's the ONLY extension that i keep there. Great to see it's built-in Firefox.
chupasaurus 7y ago
> I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. It's in the config parameter's name: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory. Boolean, works only on Windows for now.
- skykooler 7y ago
  Ah man. Hope this makes it to Linux and especially OSX soon!
  - j605 7y ago
    On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.
- tilolebo 7y ago
  Any idea when Linux will be supported? I'm using the Auto Tab Discard extension for now, but having a native way to handle this for Linux users would be great.
corobo 7y ago
Somewhat eerie.. I recently installed a tab suspender because a tab crashed or lagged out so I killed its process This version of Firefox is obviously because of me :P
helb 7y ago
> Firefox will now detect if your computer’s memory is running low, which we define as lower than 400MB, and suspend unused tabs that you haven’t used or looked at in a while. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-release-is-faster-than-ever/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-rele...
- asark 7y ago
  This really needs to be an OS-level toolkit thing, like on iOS. It's nutty to have applications inspecting system memory use to figure out if they should take pressure off. Ideally I'd be able to suspend entire desktop sessions and all the applications in them, then open a new, clean one, then go back to the old one later. Task-based (work, vacation planning, book research, et c.) GUI session suspend/resume is my #1 most-wished-for feature for a desktop OS but it needs that basic app-suspension support, integrated by the app makers themselves, to work.
  - deagle50 7y ago
    This. In the meantime, I'll settle for a real session save/resume in MacOS. I have to reboot often and "restoring" is a mess.

revskill 7y ago

On Chrome, i use the Great Suspender which does the trick. It's the ONLY extension that i keep there. Great to see it's built-in Firefox.

chupasaurus 7y ago

> I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. It's in the config parameter's name: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory. Boolean, works only on Windows for now.

skykooler 7y ago
Ah man. Hope this makes it to Linux and especially OSX soon!
- j605 7y ago
  On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.
tilolebo 7y ago
Any idea when Linux will be supported? I'm using the Auto Tab Discard extension for now, but having a native way to handle this for Linux users would be great.

corobo 7y ago

Somewhat eerie.. I recently installed a tab suspender because a tab crashed or lagged out so I killed its process This version of Firefox is obviously because of me :P

helb 7y ago

> Firefox will now detect if your computer’s memory is running low, which we define as lower than 400MB, and suspend unused tabs that you haven’t used or looked at in a while. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-release-is-faster-than-ever/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-rele...

asark 7y ago
This really needs to be an OS-level toolkit thing, like on iOS. It's nutty to have applications inspecting system memory use to figure out if they should take pressure off. Ideally I'd be able to suspend entire desktop sessions and all the applications in them, then open a new, clean one, then go back to the old one later. Task-based (work, vacation planning, book research, et c.) GUI session suspend/resume is my #1 most-wished-for feature for a desktop OS but it needs that basic app-suspension support, integrated by the app makers themselves, to work.
- deagle50 7y ago
  This. In the meantime, I'll settle for a real session save/resume in MacOS. I have to reboot often and "restoring" is a mess.