Hibernation by default

[Pesala]

@ryofurue Yes, it has been requested before.

Hibernate New Background Tabs

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[ryofurue]

@pesala Hi, Thank you for your help! But, my request covers tabs that are not "new".

The link you provide requests that a newly opened-in-background tab be automatically hibernated. My request covers that.

But, mine also requests that an old tab which becomes background be automatically hibernated.

So, I wish my request "absorbed" the one in the link.

[Pesala]

@ryofurue This is already implemented. See the Tab Context Menu.

[ryofurue]

Hi @Pesala

This is already implemented. See the Tab Context Menu.
Oh, you misunderstand me. Read my initial message.

Anyway I summarize my request:

Background tabs shall be automatically hibernated unless the user marks them as "always awake".

The context menu you mention hibernate the background tabs. But,

1. Activate tab A.
2. Activate tab B.
3. Then, tab A remains non-hibernated.

My request says that after step 2, tab A shall be automatically hibernated.

This is more general than the request you link to, and is more convenient to issuing "hibernate background tabs" from the context menu again and again and again.

[Pesala]

@ryofurue Understood

[goedl]

I think I support the request. At least if it is meant that even when activating a tab (making it visible) it is not automatically refreshing the page.

What I - to my satisfaction - found out recently that Vivaldi more and more is acting similar to O12 in that the content of at least some webpages in open tabs are surviving a closing and restarting circle without being reloaded when activating the tab.

What I still don't fully understand is what the intended behavior of this "hibernating" thing is. There is no way to check if a tab is currently set on hibernating and I believe that no matter if a tab was set on hibernating or not, when activating a tab it is no longer set to hibernate, right?

[Pesala]

@goedl said in Hibernation by default:

here is no way to check if a tab is currently set on hibernating

There is. Settings, Tabs, Tab Display, Dim icon when Hibernated.

[ryofurue]

The requested feature would be even more helpful today.

I posted a similar message to this thread:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/29171/freeze-page-to-make-reading-easy/

I've been suffering from the noisy fan caused by the browsers, not just Vivaldi but also Chrome and Firefox. For this reason, I have to keep hibernating tabs all the time, which is annoying.

[Zalex108]

Hi,

You could try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-suspender-memory-save/ghklhojdnolaljfmaappofimepjeapih disabling integrated Hibernation engine until the feature will be considered.

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[LonM]

Vivaldi 6.7 is released, with the ability to auto hibernate tabs after a period of inactivity - you can set this to a low time period