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| Alex Limi
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
Firefox 4 has the hidden ability to load tabs on-demand by setting the maximum number of concurrent tabs being restored to “0” — now that the feature has been in the wild for a while, we'd like to expose it as part of the session restore preferences. Since this makes startup a lot faster, and uses a lot less memory, it's an option we'd like our power users to make use of.
Firefox 4 has the hidden ability to load tabs on-demand by setting the maximum number of concurrent tabs being restored to “0” — now that the feature has been in the wild for a while, we'd like to expose it as the default behavior for session restore. It makes startup a lot faster, and uses a lot less memory.


== Team ==
== Team ==
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== Designs ==
== Designs ==
When you select “Show my windows and tabs from last time” in Prefs -> General, we should show an indented checkbox “Load on demand” that toggles this setting.
When you select “Show my windows and tabs from last time” in Prefs -> General, we should show an indented checkbox “Load on demand” that toggles this setting. This should be enabled by default


== Next Steps & Open Issues ==
== Next Steps & Open Issues ==
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== Risks ==
== Risks ==
* There are cases where you want all tabs to load in the background. We'd like to expose the preference to enable the old behavior for the people that prefer this.


== Test Plans ==
== Test Plans ==
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== Non-Goals ==
== Non-Goals ==


== Other Stuff ==
== Other Stuff ==

Revision as of 11:37, 1 June 2011

Feature Status ETA Owner
Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand Feature already exists, expose setting and flip the default N/A Alex Limi

Summary

Firefox 4 has the hidden ability to load tabs on-demand by setting the maximum number of concurrent tabs being restored to “0” — now that the feature has been in the wild for a while, we'd like to expose it as the default behavior for session restore. It makes startup a lot faster, and uses a lot less memory.

Team

  • Feature Manager: Alex Limi
  • Lead Developer: Paul O’Shannessy
  • Product Manager:
  • QA:
  • UX: Alex Limi
  • Accessibility:
  • Security:
  • Privacy:

Release Requirements

  • Ability to toggle on-demand loading of tabs.

Designs

When you select “Show my windows and tabs from last time” in Prefs -> General, we should show an indented checkbox “Load on demand” that toggles this setting. This should be enabled by default

Next Steps & Open Issues

  • Talk to Paul about estimates & tracking

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Risks

  • There are cases where you want all tabs to load in the background. We'd like to expose the preference to enable the old behavior for the people that prefer this.

Test Plans

Goals

Non-Goals

Other Stuff