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Some cool features I haven’t seen in Chromium yet:

Lazy session loading: when restoring browser state from session, only the active tab will be loaded. Remaining tabs will be loaded when activated. Enable here: opera://flags/#lazy-session-loading

Extended lazy session loading: changes mode of operation of lazy session loading so that all tabs are gradually loaded in the background. Enable here: opera://flags/#extended-lazy-session-loading

I use my browser tabs as a to-do/to-read list – bad habit, I know. At any given time I have at least 40 tabs open. For people like me, features such as the above boost browser startup time significantly and help consume less memory.

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Firefox fanboi here.

I use my browser as a reading list as well. And I like it.

I have had epic browser sessions with more than 500 tabs, until I discovered the Max Tabs extension, that let's you set a max limit. I use 100 now.

The extension Bartab Heavy lets you load only current page on start and automatically unloads tabs after x amount time. Otherwise 500 tabs wouldn't be possible.

Furthermore I use Tree Style Tab extension, that put them on the left side. I got used to this in Opera. Still miss the Ctrl + Tab (IIRC) feature, that only showed the list when you tabbed trough them akin to Windows' Alt-Tab window.

The existence of these extensions sooths me a bit since it means I am not the only one with these bad habbits.

Good to see Opera still attracks new users.

You haven't needed Bartab for on-demand tab loading for a while now, it's the "Don't load tabs until selected" setting on the Tabs page of preferences. Automatically unloading still requires an addon, though. I've got a serious tab habit as well (459 at the moment) and I'd recommend the Pano addon. It has tab/page title/url search that narrows the tab view to matches, drag & drop re-ordering (en masse), closing tabs directly from the list, tab group management, and visual indicators for whether a tab is loaded (nice when disconnected). It's nice when I'm cleaning out my old tabs to be able to put in ycombi, select all, and close them in one fell swoop. Heavy tab users probably want to turn on some of the optional features.

[Edit] Pano can also hibernate tabs or groups, so if that's the last thing you're using Bartab for it can replace that as well.

http://teramako.github.io/Pano/index.html

I just discovered that due to lack of time (if Google Translate is correct) Pano has been removed from the Firefox addons collection by the author and the github repository has been taken down. Since it's MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 according to the source I've posted a copy of what I believe is the last official release at https://www.dropbox.com/s/3yscqilam8gi8ut/pano%40teramako.gi... (please skim the code rather than trusting me).

There's a maintained and actively developed fork at https://github.com/salamiwst/Panopticon-Forked

This is relevant to my interests. I get the search feature through Vimperator as well, though.

Wow. This alone is reason for me to try it out. I also always have many tabs open.

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