ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Prevent tabs from automatically loaded on startup

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#2,689 opened on Jan 26, 2024

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Description

Description

When you launch Ungoogled Chromium, a bunch of tabs are loaded automatically in the background, which causes performance issues. Only the currently active/selected tab should be loaded and the rest should be hibernated.

Who's implementing?

  • I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

When you launch Ungoogled Chromium, a bunch of tabs are loaded automatically in the background, which causes performance issues. Only the currently active/selected tab should be loaded and the rest should be hibernated.

I have preloading disabled. But it still loads the tabs automatically in background. Vivaldi for example does this quite well, where it only loads one tab and that's it. Same thing in Firefox

Possible solutions

Copy the behaviour of Vivaldi or Firefox

Alternatives

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Contributor guide

Research direction
Investigate the Chromium tab restoration code to identify where tabs are loaded on startup and implement a feature to only load the active tab, potentially by modifying the session restore or tab loading logic.
Tech stack
cpppython
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
GitC++
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15