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Is this to say you want zero page-loading of existing tabs on startup (if in fact you save your tabs across restarts)?

Actaully, yes. They could replace the content of the page with a message box containing the page's title and URL, and a "click to reload" button.

It seems this could be accomplished by extensions - at the very least for tab-related requests, as far as I know - since uBlock Origin has a setting that holds every request until it can update the filter lists.

I do not save tabs and I do not want anything to load at startup: just one window with one completely blank tab, please!

Similarly, I have developed a habit of opening a new tab that loads about:home before I exit. That way, the other tabs act as active bookmarks. I'm not immediately faced with any given one of them when I start a new session. I don't know if anyone else does this, but it also saves me from loading any pages unless I really want to see what it is.

I actually keep a pinned tab at the default page about:home for this purpose, and select it before closing the browser.

In combination with tabs defaulting to unloaded in a new instance of the browser, this adds some control over memory consumption and network activity.

As a many-tabs saver and reloader, chapeau to you. Good luck, I'm pulling for you!

Actually yes, I'd prefer the browser to restore the page it had already loaded before instead of whatever is served there now.

I feel you, but the browser-cache train left the station years ago. :/

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