Tab hibernation is SUCH an annoying feature. Why can't i turn it off?

yasser732

I've been searching for months in google about how i can get rid of this option in vivaldi. I know it's there to preserve memory, and that i have only 8 gigs of RAM, but if i want to turn it off myself, i really should be able to do so.

Opera has that option. So why doesn't Vivaldi?

It's such an annoying feature because if i pause a video playing in the background to step out for a second, the tab needs to reload and the video needs to buffer again for me to resume. Every time that happens, my data is wasted little by little loading the same damn chunk of the video all over again. And i use the PIP feature religiously. It just closes by itself a few minutes after hibernating.

I didn't notice before because my personal PC has too much RAM for hibranation to kick in, but I saw that people have been talking about this same issue for YEARS.

HOW do i turn it off? I've been using Vivaldi since Tetzchner left Opera and this is the first time i'm considering switching browsers.

Zalex108

Hi,
I know about a workaround but will involve an extension and "test for the whole sites".

You can whitelist sites and work, what I don't know if there is a wildcard for all sites if it's your idea.

It's deprecated from Store since modifies settings that chromium won't allow anymore.

Look at Hibernation
Tab Suspender

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/60564/guide-vivaldi-on-old-low-end-computers

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Pathduck

@yasser732 Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

Tab Hibernation has to be manually activated for background tabs in Vivaldi. There is no auto-hibernate (not yet anyway...)

So if your tabs are getting hibernated it's not Vivaldi but something else. Extensions maybe?
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/troubleshooting-issues/

mib2berlin

@yasser732
Hi, Chromium add a automatic hibernate feature some month ago but maybe the lazy loading setting help in your case.
I can leave a YT video paused for several minutes or more and it does not reload.
This setting is for starting Vivaldi but I have it disabled for ever.
The automatic hibernate work after some time or if you get low on memory. I am on 8 GB too but I use rarely more the 20 tabs, rather less.

Settings > General:

Cheers, mib

mib2berlin

@Pathduck
Is auto hibernate a Chrome feature and not Chromium?

Cheers, mib

Zalex108

It was discussed time ago

Tab Discard
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/tab-discarding/

Not on desktop to check.

Pathduck

@mib2berlin said in Tab hibernation is SUCH an annoying feature. Why can't i turn it off?:

Is auto hibernate a Chrome feature and not Chromium?

No, Chrome/Chromium has never had auto-hibernate. Edge introduced it though. I guess that's why Google is following, but only with a flag for now I think.
https://www.askvg.com/tip-enable-or-disable-memory-saver-and-batter-saver-modes-in-chrome/

I'm guessing Vivaldi will introduce a UI for this in 5.7. They should at least, it would be very useful for the tab hoarders.

Check chrome://flags/#high-efficiency-mode-available
NOTE: Experimental, may crash and bug out, especially since not tested with Vivaldi UI.

mib2berlin

@Pathduck
I must have messed something up there.

Thank you, mib

Zalex108

The mentioned extension would work too.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/57754/option-to-disable-by-default-the-auto-tab-discarding

darkwolf

Having the same issue (I have to open more than 100 tabs in some cases) and just wondering if Vivaldi has the same feature I discovered in Edge.

Hibernate tabs are not tabs saved in local, but simply a refresh of a closed tab, and with dynamic pages, you 'll lose everytime data and location if you scroll too far, or in edition mode.

If you have the possibility, I suggest adding more RAM on your PC. I switched to 16Go instead on 8 on my portable laptop (for less than 40€), and Tab hibernation is now an old nightmare.