Lloyd Wood Reporter
	Description • 19 years ago

I find I have multiple firefox windows open, each with thirty or so tabs. Firefox grows until it falls over, and it's time to launch a new browser.

But most of these tabs are used as aide-memoires, and are rarely accessed. All that matters is the url to retrieve the tab content, not the page content itself. If the page is likely stateless (no forms with user-entered text, no POST or ? GET state in the URL), then don't store the page in memory, just the url for the tab, and reload the page if the tab is selected.

A tabbed page could be decreased to a tab-and-url if a memory limit for the browser is exceeded, or if the tab has been inactive for some time (likely an hour or more). Not storing old inactive tabs, but restoring them on access, would decrease firefox memory and CPU use, and increase perceived stability.

	Jesse Ruderman on Windows
	Comment 1 • 15 years ago

See also bug 498709.

	:Gavin Sharp [email: gavin@gavinsharp.com]
	Comment 2 • 12 years ago

We're tracking a feature like this in bug 675539 now - duping forward since that bug has more activity. Sorry we didn't find this one sooner, and thanks for the good suggestion!