Re: make few tabs go offline

On Apr 12, 2013 4:07 PM, "Tushar Kapila" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Good if you can expose public API for add ons or add this functionality
in the main browser:
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>  way to make a particular tab offline in firefox for desktop.  that page
would stop loading or if loaded no more meta refreshes/ ajax calls. maybe
switch off all the timers so meta refresh and ajax are switched off (and
stop all requests that are in progress for that page - AJAX or downloading/
any connection of the main site or include) . maybe downloading a file
should be a special exception. but a way to stop downloading elements of
the page like images, scripts, css, media
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> Also all tabs except current, all tabs to the right of current.
>
> Why : CPU, net bandwidth saved for other things.
I'm absolutely sure this functionality is available in an add-on. You just
have to poke around.