How can I disable page loading in background tabs until I go to them myself in Chrome and Firefox?

Question

Google Chrome

Every time I click the link while holding down Ctrl (or right-click the link and select "Open link in new tab") or when I open Chrome (TabMixPlus helps in this case in Firefox - it allows you to achieve a hibernation effect for tabs transferred from of the previous session and not yet opened in the current one) after closing it with several tabs - the background tab(s) immediately starts loading data in the background.
I would like them not to do anything until I go to them, stupidly save the target URL, but do not load or render anything, remaining completely passive
. Is there any way to achieve this with some settings or extensions?
It’s very annoying when you open a browser with a bunch of tabs and it starts loading them all for a long time and hard at the same time, or when you “click through” a certain list, opening tabs for the next (when they reach the last hands - xs) view, and it immediately loads everything, loading memory and the processor to the limit.

Answer 1

upd:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-grea...
Found an old working extension. I advise everyone)
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The problem is finally solved!!! Starting from version 46 of chrome!
Go to address bar:

chrome://flags/#enable-offline-auto-reload-visible-only

Answer 2

As far as I understand, there is still no such extension for Chrome. FooTab can be recommended as a replacement - when Chrome starts, it loads the active tab, and after 10 seconds in the background, it starts loading the rest one by one. Naturally, if you change the tab, it will be in priority and will load immediately. In the Chrome store, as I understand it, it is not there, so the link to SourceForge is above.

Answer 3

The Great Suspender extension has somewhat similar functionality , in which you can manually freeze unused tabs, or by timeout (at least 5 minutes). You can block all tabs before closing the browser, there is a white list.

Answer 4

Firefox
Chrome

Answer 5

In firefox: settings → tabs → do not load tabs without
asking For chrome, I like the OneTab plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/c...
It allows you to close all tabs with one click, remembering the session. You can selectively open individual tabs. Convenient thing.

Answer 6

Isn't that how it is in Firefox by default?

Answer 7

There is one trick. Enable offline mode (in Fox: Alt - 3 times up - Enter). Open the desired tabs in the background, then simply click "Try again" on the required pages - the offline mode turns off by itself.