Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature)

Luxuri

Please implement this, make it optional though on settings. This would also act as a battery saver, sleeping tabs is a great feature and Microsoft Edge already has it and it's super effective and useful to reduce memory usage, improve performance and battery life overall of the browser. Something Vivaldi really needs.

MinaWaheed9697

+1 Yes, it'll be perfect feature.

gzg06

+1 What are the chances of this getting implemented @Pesala any time soon?

Pesala

@gzg06 With 5,496 feature requests, and a small team, those needed by few users or difficult to implement may have to wait for a long time. Wherever you see that a feature is tagged as In Progress, it may get done this year rather than next.

gzg06

@pesala Thank you for the fast reply and the inforamtion I was not aware of the In Progress tagged.

barbudo2005

In the meantime use the extension The Great Suspender Original:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender-origi/ahmkjjgdligadogjedmnogbpbcpofeeo

thevampkid

I just want to bump this thread.
I will not be installing any extensions because there doesn't seem to be any opensource alternative I can audit.

The great suspender and others of it's name have been used to spread malware and I think it's irresponsible to recommend using extensions. I would rather that everyone use a native feature instead of blindly trusting some extension developer to not abuse users.

juanitofut6

@djaddo It is the same thing I am thinking of publishing. It would be a good idea for inactive tabs to hibernate, no matter if audio is playing, except for the tab the user is currently on.

hammyhavoc

Not yet a Vivaldi user, but is this still not implemented? Seems like such an obvious feature. Currently on Firefox, but had a fallout with the marketing manager at Thunderbird over ethics, and now want to drop everything Mozilla.

Vivaldi could win a lot of users over if it performed well.

mib2berlin

@hammyhavoc
Hi, if you support the request you can up vote the first post:

I don´t need it, Vivaldi performs fantastic on my stone age laptop on Windows 11 and Linux.
Maybe user use tabs as bookmark replacement have issues but up to 200 tabs I get no slowdown,

Cheers, mib

hammyhavoc

@mib2berlin Thanks for that! How stone age is stone age?

I think it probably comes down to the kind of websites you visit. What I've noticed is that modern websites have more and more JavaScript and rubbish running on them (sadly).

mib2berlin

@hammyhavoc
It is a HP Probook 2017/18 I bought used but even my old workstation with i5 3570K 16 GB Ram from 2012 work fast.
The only the thing makes engines better than cubic capacity is more cubic capacity.
You really need at least 8 GB Ram to make it work.

Cheers, mib

L34T

Options:

Do not hibernate the lastest ___ tabs.
Do not hibernate tabs with video/audio playback.

Would be also nice.

bobf32

I think the Tab Suspender extension would pretty much be the gold standard in terms of functionality to be replicated here.

endemion

@hammyhavoc said in Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature):

Not yet a Vivaldi user, but is this still not implemented? Seems like such an obvious feature. Currently on Firefox, but had a fallout with the marketing manager at Thunderbird over ethics, and now want to drop everything Mozilla.

Vivaldi could win a lot of users over if it performed well.

Did you move over to BetterBird or something?

@mib2berlin said in Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature):

I don´t need it, Vivaldi performs fantastic on my stone age laptop on Windows 11 and Linux.
Maybe user use tabs as bookmark replacement have issues but up to 200 tabs I get no slowdown,

The problem with that scenario is that when you have to close down and reopen the browser for whatever reason, it gets annoying having all those tabs reload even on a recent PC with a high bandwidth connection. Plus in general it save loads of memory to have inactive tabs suspended/hibernate.

@bobf32 said in Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature):

I think the Tab Suspender extension would pretty much be the gold standard in terms of functionality to be replicated here.

I used that until recently. But with Vivaldi 6.1 that extension makes the whole browser crash at startup. Well maybe not everyone has run into that issue but I know I'm not the only one. Another issue with that extension is that it doesn't use the native hibernate feature which can break tabs/content/session info.

I'm now using The Marvelous Suspender. It's ok but not great. The screen capture function refuses to enable and does a double gray out on suspended tabs.

I sure wish tab suspension could be set up natively (that also goes for cookies but there also we have to rely on third party stuff (Vanilla in my case)).

algebraic

Vivaldi team, some attention to this feature please. You have hibernation, auto hibernation should be easy to implement.

Tsvetkov1964

I can recommend an excellent Auto Tab Discard extension
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/auto-tab-discard/jhnleheckmknfcgijgkadoemagpecfol?hl=ru&pli=1

stardepp

This setting performs the desired function:

chrome://settings/performance

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LonM

Vivaldi 6.7 is released, with the ability to auto hibernate tabs after a period of inactivity