Special Session Restore Behavior

[shawnvw]

I always have a session to restore when I start Firefox. A big session. Lots and lots of tabs. I installed NoScript partly because I thought it would make loading the session faster if all those tabs aren't running scripts. Am I right or wrong?

Okay, assume I'm right. If most of those tabs have been set to Trusted by me, then they're going to run all their scripts on loading anyway, defeating my purpose.

Is there any way to temporarily block all scripts -- overriding the whitelist, I guess -- until I'm ready to actually read a particular page? Some kind of panic button?

I suppose I could export (a copy of) my whitelist. Then when I start Firefox, before loading the session, I reset the whitelist to its pristine state. After all the tabs load -- without running scripts -- i could re-import the whitelist.

Or is there a simpler way?

[dhouwn]

Leaving NoScript aside, you might be interested in Bug 561152 – Startup issue: Selectively be able to invoke session restore, Bug 561149 – Startup issue: Delay loading of background tabs (BarTab-like behavior) when restoring session and lots of other similar suggestions floating in the Mozilla bug tracker.

[Alan Baxter]

I always have a session to restore when I start Firefox. A big session. Lots and lots of tabs. I installed NoScript partly because I thought it would make loading the session faster if all those tabs aren't running scripts.
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Or is there a simpler way?

Yes. I use the BarTab extension to keep the tabs from automatically reloading when restoring a session.

[dhouwn]

I use the BarTab extension to keep the tabs from automatically reloading when restoring a session.

Have the incompatibilities between BarTab and NoScript been resolved?

[therube]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 5#p9695315

(Originally mentioned here, Freeze active content in background tabs.)

[Alan Baxter]

Have the incompatibilities between BarTab and NoScript been resolved?

I don't recall seeing any incompatibilities reported in the NoScript forums, at least none in the release versions of Firefox, which shawnvw and I are both using. I've been using BarTab for months and have not noticed any problem.