[Tip] Disable or Enable Tab Sleep or Tab Snooze Feature in Web Browsers

 [Tip] Disable or Enable Tab Sleep or Tab Snooze Feature in Web Browsers


Now-a-days most popular web browsers are coming with a replacement feature called “Tab Sleep“. This feature is additionally known or referred as Tab Snooze, Tab Freeze, Tab Suspend, Tab Discard or Tab Hibernation.

Tab Sleep feature has been introduced to enhance performance of the online browser. It reduces amount of memory usage thus helps in improving overall system performance.

When Tab Sleep feature is activated, the online browser checks for inactive or idle background tabs which haven't been employed by the user since a predefined period of time. the online browser puts those inactive/unused tabs to sleep. In other words, the online browser discards or unloads those inactive tabs from memory in order that the online browser consumes less memory.

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When the user clicks on sleeping or suspended tabs, the online browser activates and reloads the tabs again.

Although this feature is extremely useful because it improves system performance but sometimes users may get annoyed once they notice that some tabs are put to sleep and once they switch to those tabs, the online browser takes time in loading the tabs again.

In this article, we’ll tell you ways to activate or deactivate Tab Sleep feature altogether popular web browsers (such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and therefore the new Microsoft Edge browser). most web browsers allow users to show on/off this feature.

If you furthermore may want to disable or enable Tab Sleep feature in your browser, following steps will help you:

Enable or Disable Tab Sleep Feature in Mozilla Firefox:


This feature is understood as Tab Suspend in Mozilla Firefox browser and you'll enable or disable it using following steps:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox and sort about:config within the addressbar and press Enter. It’ll show you a warning message, click on “I accept the risk!” button. It’ll open Firefox’s hidden secret advanced configuration page i.e. about:config page.

2. Now type lowmemory in Search filter box and it’ll show following preference within the window:

browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory

If the worth of the preference is about to true, it means the tab suspension feature is enabled in Firefox browser.

If the worth of the preference is about to false, it means the tab suspension feature is disabled in Firefox browser.

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3. If Tab Suspend feature is enabled in your Firefox browser and you would like to deactivate and disable it, double-click on browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory preference and set it to false. Alternatively, you'll right-click on the preference and choose Toggle option.

Similarly, if Tab Suspend feature is disabled in your Firefox browser and you would like to activate and enable it, double-click on browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory preference and set it to true. Alternatively, you'll right-click on the preference and choose Toggle option.

That’s it. Restart Firefox and it’ll enable/disable Tab Suspend feature in Firefox supported the worth of preference.
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