Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature)
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Auto Hibernate Tabs with Clock or Calender Notification
It would be nice if auto tab hibernation function is incorporated with the CLOCK (in statusbar) & CALENDER schedule, with notification support.
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allow user defined interval event to hibernate background tab, like every 30 minutes or once per hour, with option to auto cancel the event if free RAM is plentiful when time's up.
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options for user confirm via notification (or silent mode without notification) when hibernation event triggered - to allow user cancel the event if desired. The notification should included RAM usage statistic to help user made informed decision immediately.
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Trigger auto tab hibernation notification during high RAM usage, like at around 85% ~ 90%... then delay scheduled tab hibernation event to next interval if user choose to hibernate background tabs.
//MODEDIT: post merged since it expands on the already existing feature request
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+1 for this very important feature. I currently use Tab Suspender as that has most of the functionality I require. It would be great if this was built-in to Vivaldi.
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I agree, this feature is very much needed for vivaldi that already brought first the option of "hibernating tabs" in the browser universe. Edge has it now and it is incredibly useful!
Please take care of this soon, my linux vivaldi is consuming more of my half system memory with only 3-4 tabs open that I always forget to hibernate manually.
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+1, this is a very important feature on competing browsers and there should be no reason why they can't implement the same here.
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Also, there is a context menu option "hibernate background tabs" but there's no option "hibernate active tab". I'd like to have an option to send the active tab to sleep.
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@ferdig said in Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature):
Also, there is a context menu option "hibernate background tabs" but there's no option "hibernate active tab". I'd like to have an option to send the active tab to sleep.
But what would the page look like after that? It is my understanding that a tab is awaken from hibernation when it becomes active again.
If the tab is already the active tab, what would happen to it if it went to hibernation? I'm thinking that animations would freeze, scripts suspend execution, etc. But how to bring it "back to life"? Would you have to switch to another tab and then back again? Would switching to another application and then back to Vivaldi still leave it hibernated or not? What if I drag a dialog box over the browser with an active hibernated tab? Would that tab still repaint?
Or maybe hibernating the active tab could automatically switch to another one to avoid all of the above problems? I'm sure that wouldn't be expected behavior either...Personally I think such an option would probably be interpreted differently by different people and cause a lot of unwanted side effects before getting it right
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@pauloaguia said in Auto Hibernate Tabs by a Rule (memory saving and speed up feature):
If the tab is already the active tab, what would happen to it if it went to hibernation?
I suppose the browser could dim the page content and display some sort of transparent overlay graphic that indicates this tab is currently hibernating.
bring it "back to life"? Would you have to switch to another tab and then back again?
Probably either by switching to that tab or by some context menu/hotkey.
Would switching to another application and then back to Vivaldi still leave it hibernated or not? What if I drag a dialog box over the browser with an active hibernated tab? Would that tab still repaint?
That could be implemented as optional but I'd rather only re-activate the tab on specific demand.
Personally I think such an option would probably be interpreted differently by different people and cause a lot of unwanted side effects before getting it right
You are maybe right that it might cause confusion.
My "use case" is a certain chat application that I run in a separate browser window. I only need that application when I'm at work. So I just want it to go to sleep when I go home. The way I'm currently doing this is to use a separate tab in that window and then switch to that tab and "hibernate background tabs". The ability to hibernate the currently active tab would thus make things a bit easier.
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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.
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+1 Yes, it'll be perfect feature.
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+1 What are the chances of this getting implemented @Pesala any time soon?
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@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.
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@pesala Thank you for the fast reply and the inforamtion I was not aware of the In Progress tagged.
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In the meantime use the extension The Great Suspender Original:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender-origi/ahmkjjgdligadogjedmnogbpbcpofeeo
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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
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@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).
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@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
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Ppafflick moved this topic from Automotive Feature Requests on -
Options:
- Do not hibernate the lastest ___ tabs.
- Do not hibernate tabs with video/audio playback.
Would be also nice.
