105333 - cache a browser window on close (hide instead) to make next browser window fast.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

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cache a browser window on close (hide instead) to make next browser window fast.

this is the same fix as #104989 (which is for the msg compose window) but 
applied to browser.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

An early version of Bill Law's quicklaunch code (bug 75599) did something like 
this, but only for the first browser window.  The problems he encountered with 
caching windows included:

* bug 81708, the hidden window would get/keep focus and eat keyboard events
* bug 81712, -turbo mode should not preload homepage
* bug 82804, window state not persistent in -turbo mode
* bug 83569, clicking links in mail doesn't work in -turbo mode

Btw, I think Internet Explorer does something like this.  IE always seems to 
open windows faster after I've been using it for a while.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

This doesn't really seem like a great idea... given that many people have a single window with many tabs, they're not opening & closing browser windows.

Dead for 7 years, and not going anywhere => WONTFIX