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philikon edited this page Sep 14, 2010 · 9 revisions

BarTab

Mission statement:

So you keep open tabs like libraries keep books… Aren’t you afraid Firefox will consume all your memory? Don’t you fear browser restarts because it takes so long to reload all your tabs?

Well, you shouldn’t! Because now you can put all the tabs you don’t need on your bar tab, and only pay for the load when you actually want to visit them.

BarTab can intercept when tabs are loaded in the background or restored after a browser restart and will only load the content when the tab is actually visited. It also allows you to free memory by unloading already loaded tabs, either manually or automatically.

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FAQ

I don’t want unloaded tabs to be greyed out. Can you change that?

We might change the way unloaded tabs appear in the UI in the future. For now you can customize it yourself using the userChrome.css file in your profile directory:

1. Go to about:support
2. Click the button next to Profile Directory to open your profile directory in Explorer/Finder/…
3. Find the chrome subdirectory and create a file called userChrome.css with the following contents in it:

.tabbrowser-tab[ontap=true] {
 opacity: 1.0 !important;
}

to make the tab label and icon appear with full opacity. You can of course also apply any other CSS style you like to unloaded tabs.

Why won’t BarTab show the right icon and title for unloaded tabs?

BarTab tries its best to find the page’s title and favicon in your browsing history. So if you’ve visited the page in question before, chances are good that they’re displayed. Beyond that there’s little BarTab can do. Getting the page to find out its title and favicon would of course completely defeat the point of not loading the page in the first place.

BarTab is awesome! Why won’t you install a Donate button on AMO?

I guess the main reason is that I don’t want to make it look like BarTab is shareware. It is free and Open Source software, something I consider much more reputable than shareware. I don’t expect to get any money out of it and I don’t want people to think that I would. Taking money may also create the impression that I’m making some sort of commitment to the software. In practice that’s of course true — I take BarTab very seriously. But I still don’t want to feel obliged because people have given me money for it.

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