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How to stop Firefox from loading pinned tabs upon opening the browser?

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Every time I close and reopen the browser (and then check the Process Manager), all my pinned tabs are there and taking 20-30 megabytes each while I didn't click on them and they're supposed to be unloaded after startup

None of the unpinned tabs are in the Process Manager

How do i stop this?

-- Windows 11, latest browser updates

Every time I close and reopen the browser (and then check the Process Manager), all my pinned tabs are there and taking 20-30 megabytes each while I didn't click on them and they're supposed to be unloaded after startup None of the unpinned tabs are in the Process Manager How do i stop this? -- Windows 11, latest browser updates

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Hello, Here's a solution that could possibly fix it. Go to about:processes then use about:memory and select Minimize memory usage Enable lazy loading by going to about:config then set (browser.sessionstore.restore_pinned_tabs_on_demand to true).

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lazy loading already enabled; minimizing memory usage didn't do anything;

is there a fix that actually unloads the tabs from memory? i.e so that the tab doesn't take *any* memory because it is a *stored link* and doesn't need to have anything loaded

Uliza swali

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