Suspend Background Tabs

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Gnumpf
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Suspend Background Tabs

Post by Gnumpf »

Hello and sorry for my bad english. I wanted to ask why the addon Suspend Background tab has been removed from addons.mozilla.org. I find this very useful addon! Or it is no longer necessary, because one can disable Flash in Firefox?
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mapx
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Re: Suspend Background Tabs

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grumpel

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Post by grumpel »

Hi there. I liked the extension (Suspend background tabs) very much but now after a windows reinstall I cant't install it since it's offline. Is it unstable? Or why has it been removed from the Mozilla Addon-site? I can see that the development is still active: https://hg.adblockplus.org/suspendbackgroundtabs
aissacf
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Re: Suspend Background Tabs

Post by aissacf »

Gnumpf wrote:Hello and sorry for my bad english. I wanted to ask why the addon Suspend Background tab has been removed from addons.mozilla.org. I find this very useful addon! Or it is no longer necessary, because one can disable Flash in Firefox?
I second your request. I think the developer MUST tells us what happened :-/

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aissacf
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Re: Suspend Background Tabs

Post by aissacf »

It is not the same. The extension quoted above claims to "save memory" NOT CPU.
In other words, it doesn't stop Javascript usage.

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Davvid

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Post by Davvid »

I'm interested in this addon, too. It would be really useful for me because my FF with >100 tabs open is really slow. Unfortunately I can't even find bare .xpi file with this addon. Where one could get it ?
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Re: Suspend Background Tabs

Post by Guest »

I too would appreciate any news about this add-on and why it is no longer available. You can still find it for example here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/Suspend-Ba ... 45849.html
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Post by guest »

Davvid wrote:Unfortunately I can't even find bare .xpi file with this addon. Where one could get it ?
https://hg.adblockplus.org/downloads/file/ ?
piet

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Post by piet »

guest wrote:
Davvid wrote:Unfortunately I can't even find bare .xpi file with this addon. Where one could get it ?
https://hg.adblockplus.org/downloads/file/ ?
How do I install it from the files there? I can't find an .xpi for it.
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