I'm also using MinimizeToTray revived. Browser is the only program that I'm using all the time, and it is better to be always loaded.Trinoc wrote:I can never understand why programs which people frequently want to keep running in the background (browsers, emailers, etc.) do not have minimizing to the system tray as a standard option.
With Palemoon I use "MinimizeToTray revived" (https://tn123.org/mintrayr/). I use the option to minimize to the tray when I click on close ("[x]"), to prevent me from accidentally shutting it down, but there is the option of only catching the minimize button.
Minimizing on close has an unfortunate "feature" in that if you close a secondary window (often even a pop-up) this ends up minimized to the tray as well, and you can end up with multiple Palemoon icons in the tray. It's annoying, but you can get rid of the extras by right clicking the icon in the tray and selecting "Close window".
I normally start up Palemoon (and Thunderbird) just once on boot-up. If I need the memory they are using for something else they just get swapped out to the page file.
One problem with the addon was that it doesn't have an option (like "single window mode") to bring the minimized browser instance in front when new instances are opened through a shortcut from the desktop or quicklaunch bar. I found an solution for this to use "-new-tab <url>" as a launch parameter for the shortcuts, and it is now working perfectly!
Also this addon can be combined with the addon "Minimize On Start and Close" and launch the browser on system boot to have it waiting in the tray.