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Wingman4l7 on Sept 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Quest for a New Browser

> It'd be really nice if someone could code an addon to unload tabs from memory if they're not used for a while.

There's an add-on for that =P

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/unloadtab/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

Ellipsis753 on Sept 12, 2013 [–]

Thank you for this. The memory is down to 1GB now. I think I checked a while ago but none supported newer Firefox versions but now it works just great. :)

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