Closed Bug 1333047 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

API for unloading tabs from memory and restoring them

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1322485

People

(Reporter: JanH, Unassigned)

References

Details

Firefox for Android natively supports unloading tabs from memory and restoring them from the session store data. When implementing the Tabs API for Android, we might want to include a capability for this, so add-ons could unload/restore tabs programmatically. While I don't know in how far the implementation differs, Desktop has unloaded tabs, too, which could probably be covered by the same API. Use case: For Android e.g. this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/tabpreloader/ For Desktop there are a few add-ons out there which unload existing tabs in order to reduce memory usage.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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