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How to set up that pinned tabs wouln't load while firefox is starting

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Hi, i have problems to fix this. When firefox is started pinned (perma tabs) are loading too and it makes starting firefox long and when i have pinned youtube video it starts to run and i must stop it. So how i fix this like that, that these pinned (perma) tabs won't load until i click on it ? Thanks very much

Hi, i have problems to fix this. When firefox is started pinned (perma tabs) are loading too and it makes starting firefox long and when i have pinned youtube video it starts to run and i must stop it. So how i fix this like that, that these pinned (perma) tabs won't load until i click on it ? Thanks very much

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You can set browser.sessionstore.restore_pinned_tabs_on_demand to true on the about:config page.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

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im not so good at this programming methods is some solution to set it via addon or something like that ? Btw thx for your post.

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I'm not aware of an extension that includes this setting, but maybe Tab Mix Plus includes it in its many options, but installing TMP only for this setting would be overkill.

It is not that difficult to change this setting.

Did you try to open the about:config page via the location/address bar?

Type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key to open the about:config page like you open a website by typing the URL in the location bar.

  • if you see a warning message then you can confirm that you want to access the about:config page.

You can use the Search bar at the top of the about:config page to locate preferences more easily, so start typing 'pinned' without the quotes until you see the browser.sessionstore.restore_pinned_tabs_on_demand line.

You can double-click this line to toggle the value from false to true. This will make the status column change to "user set" and the line changes to bold to indicate that the pref no longer has the default setting.

You can look at this MozillaZine knowledge base article for a screenshot of this page.

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I thank you very much, my friend, zou helped me so much! Thank you!

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and btw do you know how to make that pinned tabs will have a title, not only favicon ? thanks!