Please me fix my tabbed browsing technical issues.
September 29, 2016 7:34 PM Subscribe
When using Firefox and Chrome, is there I way that I can make the browser load new tabs while I am simultaneously browsing on a separate tab?
My preferred way of browsing is read a page or do a search, and then click links and open them in a new tab.
However, when I do this, the tabs do not load while I continue to browse the original page. They do not begin to load until I click on an individual tab.
Frequently, but not always, the original tab unloads when I look at another one, and it has to reload when I click on it again. So basically even if I just have two or three tabs open, I am often on a constant cycle of looking at blank tabs loading.
My only extensions are Avast Online Security and Avast SafePrice.
It is incredibly frustrating and I swear it wasn't always like this. I have done a bunch of googling and found nothing that addresses my specific problem.
Basically all I want is for my tabs to load whether or not I am looking a them, and then to stay loaded.
My preferred way of browsing is read a page or do a search, and then click links and open them in a new tab.
However, when I do this, the tabs do not load while I continue to browse the original page. They do not begin to load until I click on an individual tab.
Frequently, but not always, the original tab unloads when I look at another one, and it has to reload when I click on it again. So basically even if I just have two or three tabs open, I am often on a constant cycle of looking at blank tabs loading.
My only extensions are Avast Online Security and Avast SafePrice.
It is incredibly frustrating and I swear it wasn't always like this. I have done a bunch of googling and found nothing that addresses my specific problem.
Basically all I want is for my tabs to load whether or not I am looking a them, and then to stay loaded.
Response by poster: I mean to include all this info, sorry.
I am on Windows 7, on my laptop computer. I right click to open new tabs, but when I do Ctrl-click, it's the same scene.
I have tried with extensions on and off, same result.
I also have a pretty regular anti-malware routine involving Adw Cleaner, Malware Bytes, and CC Cleaner.
posted by kensington314 at 7:47 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
I am on Windows 7, on my laptop computer. I right click to open new tabs, but when I do Ctrl-click, it's the same scene.
I have tried with extensions on and off, same result.
I also have a pretty regular anti-malware routine involving Adw Cleaner, Malware Bytes, and CC Cleaner.
posted by kensington314 at 7:47 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
For Firefox, do this. I don't use Chrome, but there's probably a similar setting you can change.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 8:02 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by LuckySeven~ at 8:02 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
Here's how to change the setting in Chrome.
I swear, the way these jokers keep changing a user's defaults makes you wonder if they're actively trying to piss people off.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 8:09 PM on September 29, 2016 [5 favorites]
I swear, the way these jokers keep changing a user's defaults makes you wonder if they're actively trying to piss people off.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 8:09 PM on September 29, 2016 [5 favorites]
Yep, Tab Discarding that LuckySeven~ mentions. I was just researching this yesterday.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:17 AM on September 30, 2016
posted by humboldt32 at 9:17 AM on September 30, 2016
Response by poster: Thank you so much, LuckySeven!
posted by kensington314 at 11:31 AM on September 30, 2016
posted by kensington314 at 11:31 AM on September 30, 2016
Happy to help!
posted by LuckySeven~ at 7:59 PM on October 2, 2016
posted by LuckySeven~ at 7:59 PM on October 2, 2016
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