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In the Vivaldi browser, there is this feature called as tab hibernation which crashes the tab's renderer process in order to save memory. The best thing about this feature is that it could be manually triggered from the tab's right-click menu.

Manual Tab Hibernation in Vivaldi
▲ Tab Hibernation in Vivaldi Browser, photo source

However, in Orion, the equivalent tab unloading feature only occurs automatically, and when in low power mode, tabs are being automatically unloaded right after they are no longer in focus. With this, I wish that this feature could be triggered manually, and this can be useful if a site is slowing down the computer. I hope to find such an option inside the tab right-click menu and/or under the menu bar.

Also, while it is true that the Auto Tab Discard extension exists and is installable in Orion, I definitely believe that having it right inside the browser will become even more handy out of the box.

I hope you would consider this feature, and thank you very much!

    4 months later

    Any updates to this? I've tried a number of Chrome and Firefox extensions to replicate this feature (like The Marvellous Suspender), but none are working for me. If there's an extension that works, that'd be good enough for now.

      5 days later

      chase What is the goal of the feature?

      Note that Orion uses less memory than Vivaldi for Tabs, on average. In very rare cases you would want to hibernate a tab in Orion. One way you could do it is to move all such tabs to a new "named window" at close that window. This will use even less RAM and you can always restore the window.

          Vlad Well, to take a stab at answering, there can be pages that consume a lot of memory and even CPU load, so one could see this as a selective version of Low Power Mode.

          i.e. instead of unloading all but the active tab (or those playing media, or with input fields with text entered) I could imagine wanting to Right/Cmd-click on a tab to 'Low Power Mode for this tab' or words to that effect.

          Personally I'd just use LPM as-is, but that's because my network is fast enough the re-load hit is not much of an issue vs battery, CPU-heat, fan-noise… but that's just me. 😀

              2 years later

              Orion has this through "Suspend Tab" feature

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