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To be frank, this sounds like the feature I'd like to avoid most. I'd rather accept an OOM warning instead of dropping background tabs. I don't even use that m
by firebaze 4y ago
To be frank, this sounds like the feature I'd like to avoid most. I'd rather accept an OOM warning instead of dropping background tabs.
I don't even use that much tabs, around 30 at most, but this is the thing I use them for: to keep the current state.
- jrumbut 4y agoI just wish they would get rid of tab groups, what a pain those are!
- baal80spam 4y agoWhy would you say that? For me it's one of the best Chrome features.
- jrumbut 4y agoIt's extra clicks when navigating between tabs.
- hinkley 4y agoHalf of what I use tabs for are for fan-out on research. I think the main problem here is the lack of user studies. I think if you watch a hundred people to see how they are using tabs, you'll find a couple of patterns and that the right solution is to do something else with the middle mouse click, such as creating a new reading list, or opening tabs but either not loading them at all, loading them at low priority, or reducing the priority by 15% for each successive tab you've opened from the current page. If I open 6 tabs from google, I'm most likely going to click on the one that ends up next to my current tab. That one is the priority. Everything else is best effort.
- rhaway84773 4y agoEven easier. Give folks an option to turn this off.
- JonathonW 4y agoThere is an option to turn this off, both globally and on a site-by-site basis (if there's a page or site that you never want to be discarded, you can tell Chrome not to).
- Salgat 4y agoI use tabs a lot but at least in my case all this feature means is that the page refreshes when I go back to the tab, and for tabs I rarely access that's not a huge deal. Most sites where this would be an issue have session tokens anyways that automatically kick you off their page after a certain duration.