auto-tab-discard VS min

You might want to ask on developer of the addon: https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html

Not to be an enabler or anything, but have you tried Auto Tab Discard? Only active tabs will be loaded, so you can have thousands upon thousands of tabs without any impact on memory usage or performance.

I use Auto Tab Discard [0], which offloads tabs after a period of time. They still show as normal tabs (with a "ZZZ" icon to indicate it's been discarded), and the website reloads when I switch to them.

When I open the browser after closing it, the session is restored with all but the current tab offloaded so it opens quickly and using very little resources.

My current session has tens of tabs, only a handful of them active. It uses about .5% CPU when idle, and less than 1Gb RAM.

[0] https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html

Also https://github.com/rNeomy/auto-tab-discard, which despite the name, doesn’t close tabs, it just unloads them from memory.

I'm using Auto Tab Discard for very fine control but it is not needed most of the time. FF does this automatically now via Tab Unloading

I think there is an issue open for this in the auto tab repo. Assuming that wasn't you who opened it you can go there and give a +1 to motivate the dev.

If something like Google Chrome is using a lot of power, can I determine which sites are using the most resources in its Task Manager (Shift+Esc)? Can I use something like Auto Tab Discard to minimize resource usage in tabs I'm not using?

I think this extension does something similar: https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html

FWIW, I found https://minbrowser.org/ and it uses very little CPU/Memory, but it uses DuckDuckGo and I prefer to use Google as my search engine... Also I do not think it supports installation of extensions?...

I tried Min, I found it both appealing and confusing at the same time. It has a minimalist design and it simply looks amazing, but it has a massive drawback: It is TOO MUCH minimalist, you get confused using it, also because it's very unintuitive to use at first. It's also one of the slowest I've ever seen (on Windows, idk about Mac), even without extensions (because yeah, even if it's Chromium-based, you can't download any extensions). I guess if dev's increase it's performances, add extension's compatibility, and make it less confusing, it would be a pretty good browser, but for now, it sleeps in my trashcan.

In the CachyOS installation itself you can select to install Firefox. I hope they leave that firefox fork behind and do something super-vitaminized with Min Browser. I think they could improve a lot making custom userscripts

Some browsers (such as Min Browser) don't have a status bar like Firefox or Chrome to preview the target (it can only be displayed in the context menu).

I know it is not but the browser reminded me https://minbrowser.org/

You can use Min, Fluid or any browser with full screen mode to have the same effect.

I love firefox, but the UI is to old, I like the Min Browser look

des navigateurs il y en a plein: min, puffin, otter, falkon, dot, privacy browser, orion, netsurf, maxthon (de mémoire il est douteux en termes de vie privée celui là), etc.