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Chrome lazy tab loading extensions test
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Chrome + Session Buddy test of extensions that lazy load tabs

  1. Open two windows with two YouTube tabs per window.
  2. Pause all videos.
  3. Open extensions tab and enable none or one lazy tab extension.
  4. Save test session in Session Buddy.
  5. Focus extensions tab and close Chrome.
  6. Open Chrome.
  7. If videos don't all play at the same time, OK, else FAIL.
  8. Close all but Session Buddy tab and restore test session.
  9. If videos don't all play at the same time, OK, else FAIL.

Tab restore results

Extension Chrome 42.0.2311.152 m Session Buddy 3.4.6
None FAIL FAIL
FooTab 13.3.5 OK/FAIL (Reloads focused tab of each window.) FAIL
Lazy Tabs 0.2.1 OK (Focused tabs look ugly but don't reload.) FAIL
ntlazytab 1.0 OK (Focused tabs look ugly but don't reload. Opens https://www.facebook.com/nhtera on first enable.) FAIL

Also enabled: The Great Suspender 6.14 but that was set to 1 hour. Temporarily setting that to less than 5 minutes might enable restoring large sessions from Session Buddy.

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With Lazy Tabs enabled, restoring my 300+ tabs in 11 windows left a few windows loading all tabs.

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Firefox with optional Session Manager is breezing through 1000+ tabs right now, twice Chrome's total tabs it keeps crashing on trying to restore in misguided attempt to speed things up. uBlock Origin may be helping to keeping bloaty ads away so Firefox won't choke.

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