Ability to prevent specific tabs from hibernating

jkdba

I have noticed that not all site do well when hibernated, such as slack and pgadmin 4 to name a few.

It would be great if specific tabs could be prevented from the hibernation process. (maybe a context menu option on the tab?).

Behavior seen:

Slack

notifications still come through but the tab Icon doesn't always update to "red" to indicate unread messages.

PGAdmin4

In general I have to start a new pgadmin tab as the whole webapp start behaviour oddly or stops working all together.

Environment

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Komposten

Try pinning the tabs (right-click on the tab and choose "Pin Tab"). I don't know if this prevents hibernation (since I don't use pinned tabs), but it's worth a shot.

Other than that, AFAIK the only way to prevent hibernation of specific tabs is to keep the tabs active (e.g. moving them to separate windows) rather than as "background tabs".

Edit: As for PGAdmin, I can recommend using a desktop program like DBeaver instead. It is much more stable and functional than PGAdmin4, and you don't accidentally lose everything you have open because you hit reload or something like that.

jkdba

Thanks for the response! I should mention that these are tabs I typically have pinned and they still hibernate.

I agree on moving the tabs around and creating activity on them but that is a tedious and unrealistic method, I much rather there be an option per tab or the ability to turn off hibernation all together.

I also agree I could use another utility for postgres dev and I do (datagrip), however it was meant to be an example of the issue not the issue.

Komposten

@jkdba said in Ability to prevent specific tabs from hibernating:

I agree on moving the tabs around and creating activity on them but that is a tedious and unrealistic method, I much rather there be an option per tab or the ability to turn off hibernation all together.

You shouldn't really need to do more than move them into new windows. If you have one window per tab, the tabs shouldn't hibernate since they are "active" (i.e. the tab is open and being displayed, even if the window is behind another window), even if you literally never actually do anything with/in the tabs.

Of course, having one window with slack, another with PGAdmin, a third with... etc. does kinda defeat the purpose of the tabs feature in the first place.

jkdba

Totally agree having multiple windows for single tabs does not make sense and bypasses the awesome workflows and efficiencies the browser supplies.

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