Some tabs seem to remain active when there are hundreds of tabs open in a session

[hrj]

Using chromium v58

[ghost]

Just a guess, but is it because chromium (restores tabs) and (loads extensions) in parallel, as opposed to: waiting for extensions to load/init and then trying to load the tabs...

Btw, I'm curious to know more about that, in the hopes to force chromium(by modifying its source code) to wait for extensions to init before attempting any requests or load any tabs.

So, if any ideas, please let me know:)

EDIT: found all I wanted in my comment below

[ghost]

Holy smokes! This extensions is god! Thank you for it!
Cheers!

EDIT: interesting chrome://discards/

[ghost]

gorhill mentioned:

The browser does not wait for extensions to be fully loaded and ready before opening tabs, it's a by-design browser issue. Reported before.

here: gorhill/uBlock#2067 (comment)

EDIT: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=523634
EDIT2: I can reproduce that every time(not only the first time) if I prepend rm -rf -- /tmp/whatever before chromium --load-extension=path/to/extension --user-data-dir=/tmp/whatever with chromium 63.0.3213.0 (Developer Build) (64-bit) Revision | 12b4b3cb11d56a8ad6ce53b844e62025d4296dad-refs/heads/master@{#500808}

[hrj]

@xftroxgpx Ah, that would explain it. Thanks for the hints.

Then I guess there is nothing to be done by us.. other than adding a note that "this extension can't prevent all tabs from loading, because of chromium's design."

[akilangh]

I noticed something strange today. Sloth wasn't working in the new Ubuntu install I did until I disabled background running of Chrome. You seeing this?

[hrj]

I have never enabled background running of Chrome so I don't know.

If more people confirm this I can add it as a note in the description. And perhaps we can discuss mitigations. But it should be in a separate issue, me thinks.

[akilangh]

I too never used it, until today when I forgot to change the default. I would've started a new issue but didn't know if this was the issue or anything else I did. If you can confirm this setting causes it you can start a new issue. We will discuss and I will also see what can be done to fix it.