A feature to force a tab to be considered inactive/discarded would be useful to laptop users, power users, resource-constrained users and users that want more control over their browser. These users will all be able to increase the life of their laptop batteries, optimize resource usage on tabs they could care less about but need to remain open and make room in available resources for other tabs and applications.
Doing this would get rid of the extra steps of going to brave://discards/ to discard. Although I’m not sure of how many people actually go there to discard tabs, including me in the people who don’t, adding the ability to do it from the context menu would make the browser more accessible and be a fine addition to your collection of things that makes Brave the browser the users are in control of. The feature could even lead other mainstream browsers into adding similar options that only benefit the users
All of the replies are missing the point, yes there may be an extension that does a similar thing and yes you could turn on battery saver mode, but that still doesn’t change the fact that you could have slightly more control over your resources and a feature like this in the browser itself would be simple to implement using already existing functionality for a vastly improved user experience.
A few days ago someone reported here that they lost their tabs because the Restore feature failed when they opened Brave. They had 7000 tabs. If the automatic memory saver can handle 7000 tabs then we don’t need manual intervention, and if we do have a method for manual intervention it is essentially useless when someone has 7000 tabs.
Furthermore, if the Restore feature is not 100% secure then having a way to enable users to maintain 7000 tabs is actually detrimental to the user experience. Bookmarks are a more viable alternative, and can be exported whereas the tab strip cannot.
@treego14 it is, but it’s a result of people using the Start Where You Left Off function. I suspect that the Reading List and Saved Tab Groups were created to encourage people to have fewer tabs and be more organised, but they’re just alternatives to bookmarks without the backup mechanism which bookmarks have. Frankly, it’s become a bit of a mess. The best laid plans are paved with good intentions, etc.
