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Comment by kogir | Hacker News Reader

Actually, I'd only white-list Gmail and maybe Twitter. I'd prefer it if most site just served HTML to begin with.

I run with JavaScript and Cookies disabled unless white-listed, and just leave the majority of pages that won't load. Techcrunch, Engadget, and most news sites are so much faster without JS.

I might be ok with a timeout - after 30 seconds of no interaction from me, suspend the tab. Would that address your objection?

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  I might be ok with a timeout - after 30 seconds of no 
  interaction from me, suspend the tab. Would that address
  your objection?

There has been experiments to do that (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675539), and an (experimental) extension brings you this behavior (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dormancy/), but hasn't been updated in a while.

Actually, this completely unloads the page from memory, which is not exactly what you ask for.

So you're that <1% with their JS turned off. We knew you were out there somewhere.

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