Pinning tabs is very bad for YouTube because they are always rendered and thus a...

firefax · 2025-04-29T18:55:25 1745952925

Can you elaborate on this? What does "always rendered" mean?

chupasaurus · 2025-04-29T19:55:27 1745956527

Basically they have a higher priority than regular tabs, mentioned here [0] in context of unloading and the same applies to execution scheduling.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-9...

firefax · 2025-04-30T18:26:36 1746037596

Interesting. Does this mean I should tell users to avoid pinning tabs when browsing in the Tor Browser Bundle? (Assuming they have set the slider to "safest" to disallow JS)

chupasaurus · 2025-04-30T20:54:03 1746046443

With JS disabled only media files could cause a memory leak, so the "safest" option covers that.

firefax · 2025-05-01T16:00:30 1746115230

Thanks!