After integrating Music Player and making Chrome web Store extensions installation native, Opera Software is adding a more useful feature to its Opera browser. The next Opera update has a memory-saving tab snoozing built-in and enabled by default.
What you need to know:
- Edge Legacy lets you snooze tabs
- Firefox has tested the Snooze Tabs experiment and is currently available as an extension.
- New Edge Chromium has a Sleeping Tabs feature to throttle tabs.
- Opera is now getting a memory-saving feature called Tab snoozing. The feature is currently available in Opera 74 or later versions.
Enable Tab Snoozing in Opera 74
- Click on Opera Menu, select Settings (Alt+P)
- Scroll down to User Interface
- Toggle “Snooze inactive tabs to save memory” to enable if turned off
To disable the feature
Follow steps 1 and 2, and reverse the third-step.
Contrary to what we see with the Snooze Tab extensions, you can’t set a time period in Opera.
Opera takes care of the feature and we don’t know after much time, inactive abs get snoozed in the browser.
You’ll be shown a notification at the top when that happens (check the first screenshot).
What’s your take on Opera’s Tab Snoozing feature? Let us know in the comments below.
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HATE this. I keep clicking ‘disable snoozing tabs’ and you REFUSE to honor that.
Next tell me how to go back to the previous version of Opera. ENOUGH.
Opera what the _ is wrong with you ?? You can’t just keep closing tabs like this losing people’s work in progress.
Is it a web Browser, or a bunch of bookmarks ?
Imagine going to a dentist, him instead of fixing pulling your tooth out and shouting WORK DONE.
It won’t turn off. I switch it off in setting and/or on the tab and it comes back on.
It makes Opera unusable.
Remove or I’m gone to another browser for good.
Completely agree! Very annoying and will not turn off! Added to that, I have a dual cpu server board with 48 GIG if RAM and it STILL snoozes the tabs!
Why did you programmers even put an On/Off selection for the Snooze inactive Tabs anyway? It functions like the switch is On no matter how we select the setting to be, which most of us want OFF, oh and by the way, it is Snoozing pages that I have active. I am capable of multitasking, in fact because I am working with 3D Printing I can, and need to have many pages Active!!!!! I hate this App so much. I never asked for it, I have never set it to enabled, when I went to turn the Snooze Tab selection off, guess what, it was off…. In fact, it has never been turned on , so this thing decided to perform an unwanted function while never being activated. This kind of help I don’t need!!!!!!!
HOW IRRITATING!! Super annoying feature and even more annoying, disabling it doesn’t seem to work!
Yup, it’s still there. So annoying !!! Please push update ASAP !
I agree with anonymous and everyone else’s comment, above. But, don’t worry about pushing an update. I am switching to Firefox as recommended
This ‘tab snoozing’ is an undesired feature which is negatively affecting my work.
Turning the feature off has no effect, nor does going back to what I thought was a previous version of Opera and disabling auto update.
If Opera don’t fix the browser so the unwanted feature can be disabled permanently, they’ll lose users (including me).
yeap. Same here. Disable Tab Snoozing disables NOTHING. Tab Snoozing is a super annoying feature , and not being able to disable it, despite there being a setting for doing that, is slap in the face.
How difficult can it be:
If (TabName.disableTabSnoozing == true)
//do nothing
else
DisableTabSnoozing(TabName);
FFS!
Please disable permanently it is a horrible feature that slow down productivity!
Yep, I’m leavin’ I’ll go to chrome or firefox.
Unless you get rid of it, it is time to start looking for a different browser.
Hi.
Open settings, put ‘snooze’ in the search field and your option will be in the list
Cannot disable tab snoozing. followed all instructions and still snoozes! OPERA your worst EVER idea. I am yet another lost customer for you. Firefox and chrome :-)
don’t like it, don’t want it….
Really irritating and hugely slowing down work. Why the disabling option not working?
Was this tested before release?
Does anyone have a workaround other than Firefox?
There’s no point in this “feature”. I was uploading a file in a tab and browsing in a new one, then when I clicked on the first tab the upload progress was lost. The page simply reloaded.
I’m shocked! The years are passing and the browsers are worse and worse.
I think this is just about money and no compromise with reliability and lower memory consumption.