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Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by qxcbr on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:10AM (#19969778)
>Suspending unused tabs

Didn't they already do that? I remember receiving a spinner whenever I changed between tabs very often since they introduced that multi-process thing.

>More power to you with every update

*Except when we decide to remotely execute code on your computer using Studies/Normandy/whatever

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Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by johnchristopher on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @09:18AM (#19969848)
> Didn't they already do that? I remember receiving a spinner whenever I changed between tabs very often since they introduced that multi-process thing.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

It seems to be something different than discarded tabs.

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Re:Firefox 67.0 Released by sp332 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#19972782)
The spinner is not for discarded tabs. That's when the main window is trying to connect to a different back-end process than the one you were using for the previous tab.
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