Closed Bug 257453 Opened 20 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Deferred Loading for "Open in Tabs"

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: new_connie, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; ITC November 06, 2001 W2K Build)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

When I load multiple urls in firefox using the "Open in Tabs" Option in a 
bookmark folder OR by having multiple sites as the "home page"; firefox tries 
to load all the urls all at once

Is it possible to have a gap between the requests for the urls.

For e.g., if I have three sites in my bookmark folder/home page - mozilla.org, 
slashdot.org and google.com. 
Can the loading of the sites be performed per the following steps -

1. Create three tabs.
2. Load mozilla.org in the first tab.
3. Wait for 2 seconds.
4. Load slashdot.org in the second tab.
5. Wait for 2 seconds.
6. Load google.com in the 3rd tab.

The actual implementation steps could be different, but the above is just an 
example of what I'm asking for. The amount of time could be more or less or 
customizable (default zero).

The use - lesser load on my proxy server. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add multiple sites to the "home page" with a '|' delimiter.
2. Load FireFox

Actual Results:  
All sites loaded simultaneously. The requests go to the proxy server together.

Expected Results:  
A slight lag between the requests to the proxy server.
Confirming RFE. Might be a networking issue, but could probably be implemented
at a higher level. This will probably get wontfixed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Another idea is bug 141615, Prioritize first tab in loading bookmark groups.
I am interested in seeing something like this in firefox too. The main reason is
because so much already has been done to speed up the firefox experience for 1.1
(bfcache, the bug that makes a tab get focus on mousedown rather than mouseup,
the bug that already prioritizes transfer for single web pages, the bug that
removed the trim_on_minimize default so firefox appears quicker after being
minimized, a load of rendering speedups, etc)

It would be dead nice if firefox could focus network priority on getting the
currently viewed tab loaded before the other ones; another firefox speed win :)
Assignee: bugs → nobody
I completely agree with prioritizing tabs that are of immediate interest to the user while postponing tabs that may or may not be visited at some point in the future.

There are actually add-ons that allow you to defer tab loading. First there's "Load Tabs Progressively" https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/91919 which does exactly what it name suggests: It will only load X number of tabs to load at one time.

Then there's BarTab https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/67651 which intercepts the loading of tabs altogether and defers the loading to when you actually visit the tab.
Blocks: 141615
Comment #4 links to two addons that can do this for users who are specifically looking for this type of interaction. Trying to reduce load on proxy servers is an edge case that the vast majority of our users do not need to worry about.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
See Also: → lazytabs
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