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hawski · 2014-12-18 19:36:41

I was using suspend-tab but update or two ago it stopped working correctly. As stated on add-on's page:

> (On the other hand, because this addon calls very unstable/internal APIs of Firefox itself, this can be disabled by Firefox's update in the future.)

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numbnuts | karma 129 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2019-03-05 01:26:25+00:00

I use Auto Tab Discard if anyone is looking for something similar for Firefox.

JoshMnem | karma 3127 | avg karma 3.11 · | 2018-03-22 19:15:29+00:00

Firefox also lets you mute a tab without switching to the tab.

realusername | karma 7849 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2019-02-03 05:13:27

Firefox has also the same logic to throttle background tabs.

pritambaral | karma 3587 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2016-04-04 13:46:54

Ctrl+M on firefox mutes a tab. Helped me a few times.

schwap | karma 798 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2014-08-16 15:34:56+00:00

You can set Firefox to only reload tabs on access.

lucian1900 | karma 4353 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2012-04-13 11:31:32+00:00

I'm not sure I'd want that, but I would surely like background tabs getting throttled, similarly to background tasks on Android.

Not sure if that's feasible in firefox.

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caf | karma 12991 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2016-01-27 04:04:14

In Firefox at least the context menu includes "Pause".

anotheryou | karma 3032 | avg karma 1.22 · | 2021-09-24 10:15:59

thanks so much, didn't know there is any way now.

Simple Gesture works amazingly well and you can avoid the tabs menu all together with it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-gestur...

It just mustn't collide with the "pull down to refresh" so you might want to remap the gestures not to include down without an up before.

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Now I just need to find a way to quickly open new tabs in fore- and even more important: background. Long press for anything frequent is just infuriating.

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evilpie | karma 1737 | avg karma 12.96 · | 2013-01-26 10:58:23

In Firefox by holding control and moving the tab.

userbinator | karma 78987 | avg karma 4.37 · | 2019-08-02 01:39:42+00:00

I've never used Firefox 1.x so haven't used that UI, but it sounds like something they could've made configurable but didn't want to, for whatever reason.

However, in all the tabbed browsers I've used, Ctrl+F4 closes the current tab.

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TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2018-04-09 13:03:10

Thanks for the tip!

F8 doesn't seem to work on my Firefox, but I found the "Pause" feature on the Debugger tab.

IMO this should be a top-level user feature. Almost every day I have situations in which wish I'd be able to quickly pause JS execution on a website.

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Hovertruck | karma 906 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2010-07-27 23:13:24+00:00

Chrome also offers this in the form of pinning tabs via right click. I'm not sure if the Firefox method does anything differently.

CanisDirus | karma 20 | avg karma 2.86 · | 2020-04-11 17:25:08+00:00

Before Firefox switched to WebExtensions there were addons that made that possible, but I don't think they work anymore. So I have about:profiles page bookmarked which has the restart button and use that when needed. Not the most elegant solution, but it works.

coldpie | karma 19803 | avg karma 4.39 · | 2016-05-19 13:18:48

Firefox still has Ctrl-Q to close the current window, which is right next to Ctrl-W to close the current tab on a English keyboard. This is the first extension I install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ctrl-...

Dumb.

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rb12345 | karma 87 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2014-04-30 08:51:19

You can enable it in Firefox 29 if you like (about:config, browser.tabs.remote=true, restart). I noticed though that navigating to live bookmarks crashed the browser, so ended up disabling it.

pipeep | karma 263 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2014-09-18 19:03:11

I think Chrome is able to do this because it separates tabs into processes, but I don't think there's a good way for Firefox to do it since everything is in a single process.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262

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pulse7 | karma 2572 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2024-04-09 20:00:55

In Firefox you can mute each individual tab.

ajot | karma 717 | avg karma 2.54 · | 2022-10-07 11:31:54

ohh, I had an addon on my Firefox statusbar that did this. Gone it is with the status bar, sadly.

nyanpasu64 | karma 3595 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2022-02-17 06:30:16

I've recently installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhe... in middle+right click mode, and now miss it everywhere I don't have it (Reader Mode, PDFs, etc.). Unfortunately development looks a bit inactive, and there's no option for locking scrolling into vertical-only if you begin a scroll by dragging vertically.