Great Suspender - Why does it unsuspend tabs on focus?

byaka

I moved from Chrome to Vivaldi and installed this extension - it really helps me in Chrome. However, in Vivaldi when I focus a suspended tab - it is automatically "unsuspended". Of course I disabled this option in settings, but it does not help.

This happens in a strange way - if I suspend a tab manually and than focus it - all is OK, but if I wait for some time and then focus it again - it will be unsuspended on focus.

Looks like it conflicts with builtin Vivaldi's hibernation, but I can't find any way to disable it. I tried to disable #proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard in flags but nothing changed.

Hadden89

@byaka Try to disable also chrome://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding which could interfere with Great Suspender.

byaka

@Hadden89 hm, i dont have this flag

Pesala

@byaka I do. What is your Vivaldi version?

Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit build 17763.168 • Snapshot 2.2.1388.29 RC2 (64-bit)

Hadden89

@byaka Strange. I see it on Vivaldi 2.2.1388.29 (RC2). Should be there.
Try to search for discard in chrome://flags page.

Pesala

@Hadden89 The flag exists in 2.1 final too.

Hadden89

@Pesala yep, only the #proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard miss in some 2.1 versions. So I guess is on 2.2 too.

byaka

looks like this flag is windows-specific. crap

Hadden89

@byaka It says mac/windows. Are you on linux?

byaka

yep. sorry that not texted it in first post

Hadden89

@byaka The flag is not there on linux, it seems.
What have you set to #proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard ? Try disabled.

That flags description also suggest to enable (disable in this case) but not sure what it does
chrome://flags/#page-almost-idle.

byaka

@Hadden89 said in Great Suspender - Why does it unsuspend tabs on focus?:

chrome://flags/#page-almost-idle

yep, i have #proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard disabled.

now i also disabled #page-almost-idle and give it a try. As i understand mechanism, i need to wait 20-30 minutes for know is it working.

Hadden89

@byaka As you use Great Suspender, unchecking lazy load under startup may help (vivaldi settings, gear icon) as could interfere with custom hibernation (the extension).
Lazy load send "a restore this" on an unactive tab. So could be the culprit.

byaka

@Hadden89 hm, interesting. in my localisation (russian) it have starnge description, so i dont determinate that this is lazy-loading lol. disabled it also now

byaka

looks like problem solved with this combination! thx!

maxhoffman

Guys, I know that now is 2020th and solution from this thread could not work and absolutely because it doesn't work I have to re-open this thread.
There is no more mentioned in this thread parameters in settings and advanced settings. What your recommendation will be? The issue is the same as from topic starter.

Hadden89

@maxhoffman Would be be better open a new thread as this is quite old and marked as solved.

However, the discarding flags were removed in chromium/vivaldi and so the browser now enforce the hibernation: the only way to avoid this -with or without the great suspender - is to use an additional extension specifically made to replicate the feature loss in the flag removal.
Related feature request in Vivaldi.

maxhoffman

Thanks @Hadden89 Will try the recommended extension and if it won't work properly I'm going to write to the great suspender devs.

Hadden89

@maxhoffman Should work with the additional extension.
However, if Great Suspender team implement the function to prevent native hibernation - which affect any chromium browser and not only Vivaldi - you won't need that.
You may need to uncheck "lazy load" in Vivaldi settings - which could still hibernate the tabs at the startup.
(not recommended if you use a lot of tabs at startup).