Mozilla very recently released (as in official, not beta) version 8 of the popular Firefox browser. On The Mozilla Blog there’s a whole write-up about all the changes and whatnot.
Out of the changes listed, this was the only one that really caught my attention:
Firefox lets you load tabs on demand, making it much faster to restore windows with many tabs. Enable this option in the Firefox Menu, under Options/Preferences, in the General tab.
What does "on demand" mean? This:
If you have "Show my windows and tabs from last time" selected for When Firefox starts, what happens is that on close of the browser, any tab you had open will reopen in the same spot on next browser launch. The problem with this is that all the tabs load at once, so for example if you had 5 YouTube videos loaded each in a separate tab, closed Fx and restarted it, on restart all 5 videos would start playing at the same time.
The "Don’t load tabs until selected" checkbox means that if you load Fx with multiple tabs, the tabs will return but not load until you actually click on them.
If currently using Fx 7, that feature alone is worth getting version 8 for.
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Here are the complete release notes
. Alot more then 1 thing. It took me about 2minutes to upgrade.
Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
Added Twitter to the search bar for select locales. Additional locale support will be added in the future
Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
Improved performance and memory handling when using and elements
Added CORS support for cross-domain textures in WebGL
Added support for HTML5 context menus
Added support for insertAdjacentHTML
Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
Improved WebSocket support
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issueshttp://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/8.0/releasenotes/
The Indian town of Alot has nothing to do with Firefox at all.
Surly must be given try for!!!!
Internet Explorer 8 and 9 have a similar feature. When open the browser click the new tab thingy and there you will find “Reopen last browsing session”. All tabs that were opened when IE was closed (or crashed) will reappear.
Also this option is found in the Tools menu.
But can you delay actually loading the tabs like the FF 8 option being described in the article?