Option to disable loading an unloaded tab on left click

[cdavie-artium]

Description

I unload a lot of tabs and often want to drag-and-drop to rearrange them in the sidebar. I don't want these tabs to load themselves just because I want to move them from one branch or group to another.

It would be nice if there were an option to disable loading an unloaded tab on left click. (Ideally, I would be able to configure it to only load on double-click, but having to use the context menu would be an acceptable workaround.)

[cdavie-artium]

~~I'm currently able to work around this by installing the Hide Tabs extension and enabling its "Suspend tabs when hiding" option. I'd love it if Sidebery had an option for suspending tabs when hiding, too, so I don't need the extra extension. :)~~

Spoke too soon. 😢 The tabs don't stay hidden, and they reload themselves as part of cycling through tabs with Ctrl-Tab. (I want the tabs to stay hidden, unloaded/suspended, and ignored in Ctrl-Tab.)

[ToyKeeper]

Big +1 on this request.

I'm trying to find a Firefox equivalent of Chrome's "Tabs Outliner", and for that use case, it's really important to be able to rearrange the tree without loading the tabs.

The tree is tens of thousands of items, 99.9% of which aren't loaded, and it's important to be able to manage them without loading everything. Many of them aren't even load-able any more, since the sites they refer to don't exist any more, but they remain in the tree for other purposes. Ideally I'd prefer to have a fully unloaded state where the tab isn't even registered with Firefox's tab system, doesn't show up in "hidden tabs", and is only an inert node in the outline until/unless the user manually loads it.

This is possible in TST with the "TST Tab Unloader" and "Move Unloaded Tabs" add-ons, but I haven't found a way to drag items around in Sideberry without loading them. However, TST doesn't work as a solution because it totally falls over when there are lots of items in its tree, and it tends to corrupt its own tree structure even with casual testing of a couple dozen tabs. So I'm hoping Sidebery will work better. I hear it handles larger trees better.

[jarredou]

+1

[Lej77]

I think enabling Mouse > Tab actions > Activate tab on mouse button release should allow you to move tabs in Sidebery without switching to them and loading them.

[jarredou]

I think enabling Mouse > Tab actions > Activate tab on mouse button release should allow you to move tabs in Sidebery without switching to them and loading them.

Amazing, it's working. Thanks for the info !