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, 25 March 2010Added my feedback on the advanced tab loader feature.
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== User-specified Java runtime == | == User-specified Java runtime == | ||
I suggest to implement a way (e.g. config parameter, command-line option, ...) to instruct FireFox not to use the Java runtime found automatically (e.g. by scanning Windows registry), but instead a different one specified by the user. For instance, when using Portable Firefox off a USB stick, it would be very useful to be able to run a Java applet via a Java runtime installed on the same removable storage. | I suggest to implement a way (e.g. config parameter, command-line option, ...) to instruct FireFox not to use the Java runtime found automatically (e.g. by scanning Windows registry), but instead a different one specified by the user. For instance, when using Portable Firefox off a USB stick, it would be very useful to be able to run a Java applet via a Java runtime installed on the same removable storage. | ||
== Advanced tab loading control == | |||
I don't generally use bookmarks because I'm too busy to ever look back at them anyway. Instead, when I find a Web page that interests me, whether I've already read through it or intend to at a later date, I leave the tab open and let the session manager save it. | |||
This works awesome and allows me to stumble upon Web sites or topics that I had forgotten about. As a computer programmer, I'm often trying to learn about multiple subjects at the same time and this allows me to keep useful material available for me to find later when I have time to work through it. | |||
Unfortunately, this leads me to have sessions with 50 or 60 or more tabs open. It isn't a problem for most of the day, but everyday when I first start Firefox (and occasionally throughout the day as some OSes force me to restart the computer) I have to wait a LONG time for Firefox to become responsive because it's busy loading all of those tabs, many of them from very expensive sites. Additionally, the session often includes multiple tabs from YouTube or the like, which all start playing as soon as they've loaded; not only wasting resources, but forcing me to search through the mess of tabs to pause the playback. | |||
I was pleased to find that somebody had already suggested a solution[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Tabs,_Sidebar,_Windows#Advanced_tab_loading_control]. Loading the session, but refraining from actually loading every tab until requested. In practice, I probably have between 3 and 10 tabs that I use regularly, while the rest are just there for me to rediscover when I have time for them. It would be nice if those X tabs that I regularly use would load when the session is loaded, but the remainder would just load empty or placeholder tabs that are waiting for user interaction before loading. Firefox could also [optionally?] load these other tabs incrementally over time as it finds itself running idly. | |||
This would greatly improve the user experience of Firefox for myself (and many others I've heard do this). | |||