Only load pages when their tab is switched to upon session restore

Firefox has led the way implementing this behaviour to improve the experience
of restoring a session with lots of tabs. By delaying the loading of pages to
when the user shows interest in them, the time it takes for the browser to
become usable is diminished, and less pages are loaded in parallel, which
improves load time for the first pages the user sees.

It also has the advante of displaying less HTTP Basic Auth dialogs, when the
user has many tabs pointed to the same server.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675302

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/embed/ephy-embed.h b/embed/ephy-embed.h
index 7820318d8..afa007e60 100644
--- a/embed/ephy-embed.h
+++ b/embed/ephy-embed.h
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ void         ephy_embed_auto_download_url        (EphyEmbed  *embed,
                                                   const char *url);
 void         ephy_embed_entering_fullscreen      (EphyEmbed *embed);
 void         ephy_embed_leaving_fullscreen       (EphyEmbed *embed);
+void         ephy_embed_set_delayed_load_request (EphyEmbed *embed,
+                                                  WebKitNetworkRequest *request);
+gboolean     ephy_embed_has_load_pending         (EphyEmbed *embed);
 void         ephy_embed_set_overview_mode        (EphyEmbed *embed,
                                                   gboolean   overview_mode);
 gboolean     ephy_embed_get_overview_mode        (EphyEmbed *embed);