google-chrome
I have about 5-6 pinned tabs, e.g. Gmail, facebook, stackexchange, calendar, etc.., and every time I start Chrome, the browser tries to reload all those pinned tabs. This takes my bandwidth and slow me down on the web I really/actually/newly want to use Chrome to open.
How can I start Chrome browser without loading the pinned tabs? Is there anyway to configure it to load the cached content from the last opened time?
If you go into the Options page, there is an On Startup option in the Basics tab. In this, you can set any number of pages to open when Chrome starts.
It seems that for both Chrome and Firefox, the only solution is to unpin the tabs. The tabs should not have this behavior unless they are pinned, and the flash is due to a change in the title of the page.
An alternative is to use an extension like Stylish, which will allow you to modify the page template, potentially changing the title to a static value that does not change.
Best Answer
There's no way to do this via settings, as mentioned in the bug tracker.
You can get extensions that will handle lazy loading of tabs, e.g. Lazy Tabs
(I haven't tested that particular extension, just the first one that came up . . . )