Re: make few tabs go offline

Tushar Kapila wrote:

> Good if you can expose public API for add ons or add this 
> functionality in the main browser:
>
>  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

Apparently Fennec can do this, so it shouldn't be too difficult to achieve.
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/chrome/content/MemoryObserver.js#34

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