A better Autopagerize extension

barbudo2005

For those that use Autopagerize extension I found this fork in GitHub with a lot of improvements:

*Fully reworked to reduce memory consumption and increase performance:

-the background page now auto-unloads when inactive
-the content script is added to a web page only if its URL has a matching rule
-the content script unregisters all of its listeners when there are no more pages to load according to the paging rules - and thus it gets removed by the garbage collector (several megabytes per each tab)
-when disabling the extension via the On/Off command all content scripts are fully unloaded
-the URL matching regexps are cached upon each run of the background page so subsequent checks during the run are almost 100 times faster and take just a few milliseconds (the background page unloads after approximately five seconds of no navigation activity)
-IndexedDB is used to store the data objects directly whereas the previously used localStorage serialized them into a string
-Simple one-time messaging and in-place code execution is used when needed instead of the persistent communication ports that were created for all the browser tabs

Differences to the original:

-Generic rules are disabled by default and can be re-enabled per site/pattern (a * pattern that matches all sites may be used to restore the old behavior) in the options or the popup. This is because these rules (currently there are three) seem to be useless as the popular sites all have a custom rule, while breaking the page layout on less popular sites a bit too often.
-Exclusions are matched to the full URL now unless there's a * at the end. The original extension has been incorrectly treating all non-regexp URLs as prefixes.*

https://github.com/tophf/autopagerize

Enjoy

Hadden89

Nice, it seems to work slightly better than PageZipper. Testing

barbudo2005

I use Autopagerize Fork and PageZipper, because there are 6 sites that AutoPagerize not control.

I miss Autopager in Firefox. It was almost perfect with the site wizard and all the settings.

Did you use it?

Hadden89

@barbudo2005 Yeah, I used it a lot in Mozilla/FF XUL era. It was very good. I also noticed this fork don't work everywhere.

barbudo2005

It use the same database that the original Autopagerize so is not perfect.

Is better because you can enter new rules. Original Autopagerize don't permit.

I will ask the owner of the fork if he can introduce some setting like Autopager that make the difference in some sites to me like:

1.- Enable Javascript while loading the page
2.- Force Javascript mode
3.- This is an ajax site
4.- Quick load
And others.