| 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:
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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