The feature is called Tab Unloading, and weirdly enough they made it not easy to access despite its usefulness.

You basically have to type about:unloads in the address bar and hit enter. If you then click on “Unload”, it will put the least used tabs to sleep. If you keep clicking that button until it’s greyed out, you’ll have unloaded all your tabs from memory.

This feature is handy if you want to temporarily switch to something that is memory hungry without having to close your 100 tabs.

  • @WhoRoger
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    10 months ago

    IceRaven, Android FF fork, has this feature as an option, and it’s very cool when using permanent private browsing mode. It makes it less likely that the OS will kill the browser in the background.