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Tabs and Windows

Tidying and sleeping tabs

Old tabs put themselves away, and tabs you aren’t using give their memory back.

Tabs you haven’t opened in a while#

Today’s tabs you haven’t looked at for 12 hours are closed together, as Arc does it. It happens when you come back to Yab, never while you read, and a notice says how many went, with Undo. ⇧⌘T also brings them back.

Pins, kept tabs and the tab on screen always stay, as does anything playing, on a call, downloading, floating or holding unsent typing. Choose the time, from 12 hours to a month or never, in Settings › Tabs › Close tabs you haven’t opened in.

Sleeping tabs#

A tab you haven’t looked at for four hours of your Mac being awake lets its page go and keeps its place, history and a picture of itself. Click it and it loads again where you left it. On battery at 20% or in Low Power Mode it sleeps after an hour. The last few tabs you went between, and a tab you keep coming back to, stay awake. When the Mac runs short of memory, Yab frees memory automatically: the heaviest idle page goes first, one at a time, until the pressure eases.

Pins in the space on screen stay awake during ordinary idle sleeping. If the Mac is critically short of memory, an unused pin can sleep only after ten minutes untouched, after the other idle pages have gone first.

The tab on screen, both halves of a split, calls, sound, floating video, pages still loading, downloads and unsent typing stay awake. Right-click several tabs or a folder to put them to sleep yourself. Turn automatic sleeping off in Settings › Tabs › Put idle tabs to sleep.