On Mittwoch, 7. September 2022 16:23:28 -04 Alex King wrote: > A couple of FF Extensions you might benefit from: > > Auto Tab Discard: although it does the opposite of what you want, > (I.e. the purpose is to discard or "unload" tabs,) it gives a UI into > the settings for when tabs are discarded. (Although I'm on FF > 91.13.0esr, and I don't know if it works on FF 104.) > > Textarea Cache: Allows to save automatically the content in a text > input field. Great for retrieving text you wrote into a website, e.g. > if the submission failed for some reason. Not sure if it stores text > from text input fields on discarded pages or not... > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 8/09/22 05:10, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Subject: > > Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few > > minutes From: > > Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ <zp6...@gmx.net> > > Date: > > 8/09/22, 04:16 > > > > To: > > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > > > I admit that I usually have ~ 70 tabs open. > > FF does not blank all, just most of them. > > Then I have to reload the pages and enter all information again if > > the pages contain forms like snail-mail tracking, tracking of > > packages, tracking of processes with the local communications state > > agency, following geomagnetic storms, RF-Propagation, blogs etc > > etc. > > > > My time is too valuable to waste it reloading and reloading web > > pages > > again and again. > > It happens with dynamic pages and with static pages. There is no > > consistency at all. > > > > I looked into the FF settings for a setup - but no - there is > > nothing > > about this behaviour. > > > > OK, so which browser will I now use instead of Firefox? > > > > have a nice day > > Eike > > -- > > Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ
Opera has a setup option "Snooze inactive tabs to save memory" which can be disabled. I didn't find anything similar in the settings of FF but there is in about:config browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload I am testing this right now with a higer number of seconds (I believe that it is set in seconds). Weird thing is that FF tends to unload the tabs agressively when starting to use the browser but later when I've gone through the process of reloading the pages and filling in requested data, adjusting the focus of maps and whatnot *several times* then it seems to succumb to the will of the user and maintain the pages loaded. Absolutely weird behaviour ... Textarea Cache is a fine extension for what it's worth and for what it's intended but unfortunately does not help in my usecase (entering package codes, adjusting maps for size and focus, filling forms of state agencies. It does not even cache the text entered on WhatsApp or Google Translate. Answer is "No cache here". Anyway I leave it installed because the possibility to save text comes in handy when e.g. answering to blog posts. Thanks again All the best Eike -- Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP6CGE
