Firefox – Prevent auto-loading of tabs in Firefox when starting browser

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I use Tab Mix Plus, and I have the following settings set:

  • "Don't load tab until selected" in Tabs dialog of Firefox is set
  • The "Reload all tabs" in TMP is unselected
  • The setting browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand is set to true
  • The setting extensions.tabmix.sessions.restore.reloadall is set to false

To the best of my knowledge, and everything I googled, this should suffice and prevent the autoloading of all the tabs. However, it doesn't and after opening the browser, it loads all tabs. Strangely though, when I crash the browser, it honors these settings correctly.

What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

At the time I write this, this is a known issue:

http://garyr.net/tmp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15821&p=55432

The only workable solution I've found is to disable session management in Tab Mix Plus*, enable the Firefox setting to only load tabs on demand (under tools -> options -> tabs -> "Don't load tabs until selected"), and, if you still want similar (probably better) Session Management functionality, install the Session Manager extension --

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/ --

This extension has an equivalent setting under Tools -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> General -> Saving and Restoring -> "Restore Tabs on Demand."

*As I've just installed the Session Manager extension, which modifies Tab Mix Plus' options interface, I don't recall exactly where to do that.

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