748436 - Background tab management

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 675539

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Kevin Smathers]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

I like tabs. A lot. Actually I use tabs similarly to the way I used to use bookmarks.  Every web site that I have been working with, and that I want to remember I leave a tab open.

I have tabs for recipes I've looked up for upcoming dinner plans, tabs with educational videos, or PBSKids games, webcams to check the snow conditions at Bear Valley so I know if the weather is good for skiing, tabs to access Gmail, tabs with homeschooling reference materials, and many more.


Actual results:

When one of my children has a game in progress on PBSKids and I switch to another tab to for example buy something from Amazon it may be a while before the game gets resumed.  It is disconcerting to have the background tab start playing music, or emit audible prompts while it is hidden.  


Expected results:

Ideally background tabs could be managed somewhat like bookmarks; when restarting Mozilla after a crash tabs are restored essentially to their previous state.  

I'd like to be able to save off a set of tabs intentionally, and bring them back at a later time.  I would also like to be able to force background tabs to stop using CPU, or at least to stop blatting out sounds.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

This sounds like a dupe of bug 675539

Comment 2

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

Hello Kevin,

some parts are already OK in actual Firefox versions (Panorama) and the rest should be OK after fixing bug 675539. so i mark this as an dupe.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Kevin, what you want is virtual tabs. You may look at the request bug 906076.

I think that this request is rather a duplicate of the request bug 906076.