Closed Bug 761549 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Extend new tab-loading-behaviour to "load tabs when idle"

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Version:
13 Branch
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257453

People

(Reporter: derwiwie, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601175215

Steps to reproduce:

I opened Firefox 13 with around 30 tabs.


Actual results:

The new tab-loading behaviour does only show my previous tabs in the tab-list, but does only load them until I activate them. This leads to a improved starting-time of firefox, but entails a delay when activating an unvisited tab.


Expected results:

After firefox has started, the user can only activate one tab at a time. Therefore with n-1 opened but unvisited tabs, the user will have to accept n-1 delays in the worstcase, whenever he activates another unvisited tab.
Firefox should use idle times (after finished startup) to load tabs in the background, to avoid both startup-delay as well as tabbing-delay.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
OS: Linux → All
QA Contact: untriaged → tabbed.browser
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
The "expected behaviour" here would be a bug for me and for other people. So the behaviour asked here should not become the default behaviour of Firefox.

Firefox now says that the tabs will not be loaded until visited. Firefox has to respect that.

There are several reasons for that, the main reason is memory saving.

Actually, a lot work is being done towards loading tabs *more lazily*. For example, see file bug 906076 - Virtual tabs.
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