Memory Saver

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Reduce Chrome's memory usage by setting inactive tabs to sleep or system memory is low

Latest reviews

• (2023-09-01) Rant: I'm using windows 7 still, and i just love the old comodo dragon because of its lite use of memory even when opening many tabs in Youtube. (i've open at least 10 tabs of Youtube and less than 1GD ram usage). with this memory saver, i realized when you try opening another link to a new tab, the tab goes blank. Maybe the developer can do something about it? i know and understand its old and outdated versions i'm using if they are not willing. Seems to help a bit with the memory i would think this extension.
• (2023-07-09) Tête à-tête: I'm used to 'freemem' for mac, which can be configured. I installed memory saver to an 8-gig dell vostro and, it needs no configuration. I immediately saved 1.1Gb and swap activity dropped, and levelled off. Excellent!
• (2023-05-08) SenusSuns (Hydracoil): Useless extension. I had tabs I didn't want to snooze and I installed this thinking I could customize it but instead all it did was snooze all my tabs and ruined everything. DO NOT INSTALL!
• (2023-01-07) Meghan and Tyler Meszaros: Although this app used to be necessary, Chrome now has this feature built in. Go to settings and then performance.
• (2022-05-01) Ryan Chang: When opening a website in a new tab by clicking on a hyperlink with the middle mouse button or right click > open in new tab, an about:blank screen appears instead of the website.
• (2022-04-24) Вадим Шишолик: не хватает функционала и возможностей большой настройки, а так очень даже неплохо
• (2022-03-22) Cristobal Rodriguez: Es Buena Extensión gracias al Desarrollador de la Extension, pero he probado OneTab y es mucho mejor, Saludos Desarrollador
• (2022-02-24) Aharshi Ghosh: Great
• (2022-02-11) Mark Solomon: Does what it suppose to do but buggy. Breaks open in new tab. Seems inconsistent as to which tabs to discard.
• (2022-02-09) Kevin Pinel: Need it to leave pinned tabs alone. I think most of us pin tabs for a reason. Be nice to have a bit more configurability in it so that users can set exclusions if pinned tabs aren't going to be excluded
• (2021-12-19) Andrey: Очень хорошо! но очень н хватает списка исключний для страниц которым н нужно засыпать, например для web.whatsapp.com итп
• (2021-09-13) Jose Leal: Good extension, however, its taking control of opening a tab with ctrl. It opens an empty tab
• (2020-12-18) Maria Tassone: Great extension!

Latest issues

• (2022-04-17, v:1.5) John Osborne: Saving tabs vs discarding tabs
  Good morning, Thank you for developing this extension. Am not sure if the app will work for my needs. But may not have fully grasp its functions. Copy which describes the app, and in settings, emphasizes "discarding" tabs. Specifically under time and low memory conditions. What about saving tabs? How can one reduce memory but also sleep or save tabs from being discarded? Many users, such as myself, invest thousands of hours, to find and keep tabs. Your app, by contrast, seems intent to blow 'em up. For example in settings, once limits have been triggered, tabs are wiped out! Is it true or have I misunderstood "discard?" It may be possible that the app was designed around discarding tabs, as oppose to sleeping or other means to save memory? Is it true? When your app was installed, it immediately shut down tabs (put them to sleep). Which is good. None were lost or discarded and memory was quickly reduced, which is also good. But tabs also, toggled on and off. The app was removed immediately. Thousands of hours have been vested in saving tabs, bookmarks and links. The app did not provide instructions, advance notice or options to set conditions. Instead, upon loading, it went into attack mode. My system includes 4 chrome instances and about 300-400 tabs. Discarding tabs or "all tabs" as indicated, would result in loss of time. Which am not willing to risk. Admittedly, did not investigate the app after it loaded. It may indeed be possible to; sleep, wake and otherwise reduce memory. If so, please reconsider description and settings; to emphasize saving, protecting and recovery. Thank-you for considering my query john
• (2022-03-28, v:1.5) Evil Spud: Manual Download?
  Hey, I'm not using google chrome so I can't use the chrome web store to automatically install extensions. Do you have a download so I can manually install your extension?
• (2022-01-23, v:1.3) Stephen Lewis: makes new tabs blank
  With the extension installed, whenever I use middle button to click on a link, or when ever I right-click on a link and select "open in new tab," it just opens a blank tab that says "Untitled." When I uninstalled the extension, those capabilities returned, so I'm pretty sure the extension is causing it. I installed it in Brave.
• (2021-08-03, v:1.1) Steven (Steven): Less than 1.0 GB?
  Allow a value less than 1.0 to be input into the 'Discard tabs if memory is lower than (GB)' option.