Firefox: Unload a tab manually
- by unor
Firefox has a setting "Don't load tabs until selected" (see How do I make Firefox 13 Load All My Tabs on Startup or when Resuming Reload). I like that behaviour.
I am searching for a way to "deload"/deactivate a tab manually for a session (until I reload it).
It should stop all running JavaScript functions and plugins (like Flash). The whole webpage content may disappear until I reload/re-activate the tab, but that is not a requirement. The title has to be displayed as tab label (like it is the case with the startup setting, too).
The workaround would be to restart Firefox and don't switch to the tab I want to be deactivated. This is pretty annoying, of course.
EDIT: Here is what I found so far
(thanks, @bytebuster!)
BarTab
no longer being maintained (see why)
BarTab Lite
seems to miss this functionality from BarTab
Dormancy
experimental; comes with warning that it "may eat your session"
Tab Mix Plus
Feature request: Unload Tab feature
Tab Utilites
seems to offer this functionality only for automatic unloading
Feature request: Add "unload tab" to tab context menu.
UnloadTab
removed from addons.mozilla.org (who knows why)