Tab Unloader

Unload tabs to free up system resources

Total ratings for Tab Unloader

3.88 (Rating count: 49)

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Pros

Works fine with previous versions of Firefox and Tree Style Tab.
Useful settings including time to auto-unload, visual indicators for loaded/unloaded tabs, and not unloading tabs playing audio.
Counts the time before automatic tab unloading from the moment the tab is inactive rather than when tab was first opened or last loaded.
Has options to unload specific tabs or all other tabs.
Very useful for users with limited RAM on their devices.

Cons

Issues with unloaded tabs where the URL is lost, preventing the tab from being reloaded.
Doesn't have a reload option, making it difficult to get back unloaded tabs.
Doesn't automatically reload tabs.
Changes favicons in bookmarks to a blank icon which can't be rolled back.
Sometimes unable to load unloaded tabs resulting in a new tab.

Most mentioned

Tab Unloader's utility in unloading inactive tabs to save memory.
Problems with losing the URL of unloaded tabs.
Comparison with other similar extensions like Auto Tab Discard.
Issues with favicons changing and not reverting back.
Desire for more settings like an option to disable recently-added favicon replacing, integration with Tree Style Tab, and an option to specify conditions such as number of inactive tabs or Firefox memory consumption for discarding tabs.

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Recent rating average: 4.60

All time rating average: 3.88

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Date	Author	Comment
2023-10-03	Firefox user 13197014	Tab Unloader working just fine with all previous versions of Firefox up to 118 (on Arch Linux). Usefull settings and default settings, ie: time to auto-unload; visually shows which tabs are un/loaded; don't unload tab that's playing Audio... Also works fine with Tree Style Tab.
2023-08-16	masatami
2023-07-19	rjt	Before opening Firefox, is there some way to tell Firefox to tell "Tab Unloader" to open all tabs unloaded?
2022-08-29	Ahmed	Still works. I actually use this only for the option to load a whole bookmark folder unloaded.
2022-04-26	jamvaru
2022-04-23	ded-doed	More useful than Auto Tab Discard for me, because Tab Unloader correctly counts the time before automatic tab unloading from the moment the tab was last active / in the foreground before the user switched to a different tab. Auto Tab Discard, in my testing, counts the time since the tab was first opened or last loaded back from the unloaded state, which is quite inconvenient.
2021-07-14	Sander Bouwhuis	It seems to do what it says. I use it to automatically unload tabs that haven't been used for 15 mins. Big thumbs up from me!
2021-06-21	Fashtas	Has some issues with unloaded tabs where either it or Firefox "loses" the URL belonging to the tab so the tab can never be reloaded. Seems to happen between 1/2 and 3/4 of my unloaded tabs (Honestly the ability to reload a tab happens very infrequently, generally an unloaded tab is gone forever) so makes it a non-functional add-on for me
2021-06-05	Firefox user 16677902
2021-05-15	Vitalii Makarchenkov

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