Lazy tabs

Open links in paused (discarded) tabs and pause selected tabs (from the right-click context menu). Also with "Lazy Mode".

What is Lazy tabs?

Lazy tabs is a Firefox add-on by martin. This add-on has 21 daily active users and a perfect 5.0 rating. The latest version, 4, was updated 2 years ago.

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By: martin

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Users: 21

Rating: 5.00 (1)

Version: 4 (Last updated: 2021-07-03)

Creation date: 2021-04-07

Weekly download count: NaN

Firefox on Android: No

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
webRequest
webNavigation
menus
bookmarks
tabs

Size: 10.30K

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 17223 ▲ 21

Other rankings

#52 in pause keyword

Summary

This extension allows you to discard tabs and open links, bookmarks and bookmark folders in discarded tabs.

It adds a button on the tab bar that turns on/off the "Lazy Mode".
When Lazy Mode is ON all new background tabs are automatically paused.

You can't pause the current active tab, just switch to another tab and pause it from there.
If you have bookmarks with URLs like addons.mozilla.org or support.mozilla.org, you should open them from the context menu item, Lazy Mode can't intercept requests to that sites for security reasons, I guess. This only happens with bookmarks and Lazy mode, otherwise everything works fine.

This add-on needs some permissions. If you're worried about that, just read the source code. It will take you less than a minute.

BACKGROUND.JS

let lazyMode = false;
let lastOpenedTabId = 1;

User reviews

Can i ask you? Why in discardNewTab do you delete and then create a new tab? Maybe do browser.tabs.discard(tabId) for an already created tab instead?

by Dook, 2023-04-12

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Safety

Risk impact

Lazy tabs requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Lazy tabs if you trust the publisher.

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Risk likelihood

Lazy tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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