Automatically suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory, reduce load on your device, battery and heat.
If you like to use many open Tabs at once - this extension will help you and automatically accelerate your browser and purge the memory.
Extension suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory.
Unloading tabs will free memory and reduce load on the device, saving battery and less heat.
This extension catches inactive, idle or forgotten tabs and suspend / park them with the freeing 80% memory, device resources and battery life.
When tab became a visible again, it can be automatically restored to initial.
Also you can enable auto-close tabs function, which close unused tabs and holds count of tabs at the selected level.
IF TAB SUSPENDER HAS STOPPED WORKING:
-> Please try to reset Tab Suspender Settings:
"Tab Suspender Menu -> All Settings -> Reset Settings".
Benefits:
Speeds Up Chrome:
Suspended tabs don't consuming
processor resources.
Minimize Memory Use:
Chrome consumes in 3-5 times less
memory with suspended tabs
against normal.
Automatic controls tab population:
Do not need to close unused tabs
manually.
Version history:
1.4.11
Parked page performance improvements 1.8x.
Interface improvements.
Added video tutorial.
Some bug fixes.
1.4.10
Bug fixes.
1.4.9
Added Youtube video timing save.
1.4.7
Fixed auto-restore function.
1.4.4, 1.4.5
Fixed bugs with corrupted settings.
1.4.3
Fixed bugs with mistakenly wizard opening.
1.4.3
Fixed bugs with freezes.
Added ability to import/export settings.
Added quick Session Preview on TS menu.
Activated configuration synchronization between account browsers.
1.4.1
Fixed History bug.
Turned off Auto-Close by default.
Other bug fixes.
1.3.3
Fixed Menu JS error.
Reworked History page.
Added Session Manager.
Fixed h2c screenshot
Width/Height logic.
1.2.9.4
Fixed suspended screenshot size
for Retina displays.
Added new HOTKEYs: 'Suspend
or Unsuspend Current Tab
(in one HotKey)' and others.
Reworked context menu with
checkboxes, added
separators.
1.2.9.3
Added ability to click
anywhere to restore.
Auto adjust Restore button
size based on window
height.
1.2.9.0
Menu extended.
1.2.8.1
Fixed wizard in incognito
mode.
Native URL bar now shows on
mouse hover.
1.2.8
Fixed issue with all tabs
icons doesn't load properly.
Performance improvement.
1.2.7.2
Fixed empty screen without
title.
Fixed bug with 'The database
connection is closing'.
Prevent from suspend tabs with
filled forms.
Added new style of restore
button: Top Menu (can be
changed in settings)
1.2.7.1
Added setup wizard.
Added reset settings button.
Added settings for additional
CSS styles of suspended
page Screenshot.
1.2.7
Migration to IndexedDB.
Bug with double capture
on page loading,
improved capture logic.
Bug with icons do not loaded
but page already discarded
without icon.
Bug with DB is not initialized.
1.2.6
Added settings related to
battery level.
Added new option "Open new
tabs discarded".
Fixed Whitelist lost focus.
Fixed problem with Zoomed
pages when preview
screen was over zoomed.
1.2.5
Fixed bug with slow scrolling.
Fixed bugs.
1.2.2/1.2.3
Fixed bugs.
Settings were categorized.
1.1.4/1.1.5
Fixed bugs.
1.1.2
Fixed bug with auto-reload on
tab activation.
Rework open from history page
logic.
1.1.1
Speedup load suspended tabs on
browser startup.
1.1.0
Greatly improved memory savings and performance.
Added support of native discard,
if suspended tab not used for
a long time - increased
memory save!
Reworked screens storage
- improved memory usage,
saves even more memory now!
Reworked screens storage
- screens not disappear
after browser restart.
Added option to start tabs
discarded on browser startup.
Added restore form data during
unsuspend.
Added settings allows to disable
suspender based on charging status.
0.6.0
Menu reworked.
Added new option "Auto-Suspend
tabs only when working on
battery".
Added new settings for
background color of
suspended page.
Bug on settings page slider
fixed.
Tried to fix chrome://invalid
problem.
0.5.7
Settings page reload bug fixed.
Disk writes issue improved.
Suspend bug fixed.
0.5.5
Added menu tooltips.
0.5.4
Returned 'Ignore Current Tab'
menu item.
Added White List user interface
(May ask for "notification"
permission).
Removed 'http' prefix from
White List tester.
0.5.3
Removed 'Ignore Current Tab'
menu item.
Fixed recursive suspend from
context menu.
0.4.9.2
Recycle button improved.
0.4.9.1
Issue with pages without favicon.
Fine suspend interval slider on
All Settings.
0.4.9
Suspend window menu item fix.
Icon does not processed as
well on some sites.
Auto update for old version
immediate updgrade absorber.
0.4.8.3
Added hotkeys.
Added context menuon mouse
right click(May ask for
"contextMenus" permission).
Fixed immediate extension update.
Fixed cross OS font on popup.
0.4.8.2
Fixed pause issue.
0.4.8:
Huge performance optimization.
Added tab icons status animation.
Added Recycle function control
on popup page.
Added history of suspended tabs.
Added native tab URL info at the
top of parked page.
Added if user click refresh browser
button on suspended tab -
unsuspend tab.
Fixed wrong weight calculation on
tab close logic.
Audiable exception logic
improved.
Restore tabs on startup only if
according setting setted.
Fixed: tabs playing music have
more points opposite tab
without music for
'tab close' case only.
0.4.7:
Added audible option.
Added auto restore tabs after
auto-update extension on
enable-disable action.
(earlier lost all
suspended tabs)
Added popup with slider for fast
access to suspend-interval
settings.
Improved auto-close tab logic.
Performance improvements++.
Added new functional buttons:
"Suspend other tabs",
"Restore All".
Added Pause Suspender function.
Added "Ignore current tab" option.
Added option to reload a tab
when restoring, instead
of just displaying the
cached version of the
page.
Added option to restore tab by
mouse click instead of mouse
hover.
Fixed bug with unparked tab stuck
in parked state.
Reworked exception list, added *
support, now supports
'subdomain.*' or
'*.domain.com'
patterns.
Add test interface for exception
list testing.
0.4.6:
- Fixed bug with tab suspend
stops after some time.
- Added ability to suspend tab
manually.
- 'Very slow PC' options detects
automatically - actual
for ChromeOS.
0.4.5:
- UI fixes.
- Close tab logic improved.
0.4.4:
- New option to exclude sites
from being suspend.
- Fixed orthographical errors.
- Fixed Restore from History or
OneTab plugin.
- Fixed generated favicons
injection.
- Added mode for super-slow
PC(for the case when the video
slows down)
0.4.3:
- Improved blinking of restore-
button.
- Added correct suspended
favicons for pages without
favicon.
Latest reviews
- (2024-02-15) Alice Chesworth (Friday): [2024 UPDATE:] Hello! It's now 2 years since I wrote this review and I am still IN LOVE with this extension! I've still never had a problem! I've never lost all my tabs, even if my computer crashed or Chrome crashed! It's never broken after a Chrome update or conflicted with my other extensions (ie AdblockPlus). I recommend this extension to everyone with ADHD! It's basically CHANGED MY LIFE to the point that I earnestly consider it to be an Assistive Technology. // [MY ORIGINAL 2022 REVIEW:] Yo fellow ADHD peeps with 50 million tabs! THIS is the extension that I've found works best for my needs! I have trialed MANYYYY too :P (Like, A LOT.) Other tab-management extensions I've tried always kept breaking, leeching memory/data or caused other technical problems i don't understand but Computer Go Slow Now, & other problems - BUT NOT TAB SUSPENDER! I've been using it for god knows how many years and I HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! It's VERY customizable (via the extension's Setting but ALSO there's customisable shortcuts (found here: chrome://extensions/shortcuts)) Massive battery-life saver. Zero problems if Chrome crashes - the tabs are all restored exactly as they were before the crash, and there's zero issue unsuspending them after restore too (like, this is what sets Tab Suspender apart from all the similar extensions I've tried!) The suspended tabs are also recorded in History just like any other tab too, and you can bookmark a tab that's suspended, and when you open the bookmark & then unsuspend the tab: there it is! Zero issue, you haven't lost a link you saved, no problemo! Basically, I came by here to chuck Tab Suspender's peeps a donation because they're basically a disability support tool or whatever for me, and then oops got distracted writing this review :P :) Hope this review helps peeps! :)))
- (2024-02-12) Antonio Carretero Losa: Looks good, but settings reverts to default after closing Chrome. I hope it gets fixed.
- (2023-11-30) Malay Firoz: I really rely on this extension, but a few days ago it suddenly stopped working on my Chrome browser on multiple PCs. The Tab Suspender pop-up window shows that the extension is disabled even though I've tried enabling it multiple times. I've tried resetting the settings but that didn't help either. Even worse, my existing suspended tabs are now inaccessible, and there's no easy way to unsuspend them without getting the extension to work again. Can the developers please help? UPDATE (30/11/23): The extension is working now after v1.4.12 was released. Thanks to the developer for their support!
- (2023-11-18) Jenci: I tried out and it didn't work. When I set suspend them all 147 tabs and it was nothing happened. It's so frustrating because very unusable. Tested on Chrome 119.0.6045.160 version
- (2023-11-13) Alex: Cannot enable extension > Error in Popupsettings.get is not a function TypeError: settings.get is not a function at window.popupQuery (background.js:139:21) at popup.js:64:17
- (2023-11-13) Heath Jones: This actually seems to be tied to the manifest version in the manifest.json. Might be worth a look. Anyway, appriciate all the years that this has been working and I would hate to see it go away. Also just to note, if chrome is installed fresh, this will no longer work. If you install an older version of chrome (not recommended for general public) you can get the extention to work again. This is regardless on what version of windows is running. I am currently running Win11 23H2. Anyway, I just thought I would share some light on my tshooting with this.
- (2023-11-10) Franck: on macos its doesnt work i click to activate but still desactivate...
- (2023-11-09) Gean Fonseca: Dont work at all...removing
- (2023-11-06) 鐮夜: Does not work ,windows 23H2,chrome 119.0.6045.106 (64 位元), 今天重灌全新系統裝的全新chorme,打開擴充以後就完全沒反應了,打勾重啟瀏覽器也不會勾上,右鍵選單也沒有,怎麼設定都沒用
- (2023-11-05) Nuutti Gylling: Does not work.
- (2023-11-02) Davi Poncem: This last Update dont have the shortcuts .... to suspende all others tab, to suspend current tab .... really?
- (2023-10-08) bun nyd: Works on Windows 10. Saved >50% of memory.
- (2023-10-07) onur altuntaş: Extension done very well until this time. Recently, video players like twitch are flickering when the extension is active.
- (2023-08-07) MelkornX: Из-за постоянного открытия окна расширения с запуском браузера, решил спустя очень долгое время(может даже больше года) удалить расширение. После удаление теперь все мои 149 вкладок в трёх папках - Сайт fiabciakcmgepblmdkmemdbbkilneeeh заблокирован. Видимо все 149 сайтов перенаправлены на этот а тот не очень хороший, от чего его Яндекс заблокировал. Это месть за удаление?) После установки расширение эта блокировка проходит.
- (2023-07-27) Valentin Degenne: Design is old and not user-friendly, the extension does way more than just tab suspender which makes the extension unfinished here and there.
- (2023-07-16) Adrian Olmedo: Excelente, ahora Chrome no se come mi RAM.
- (2023-07-15) Don't do it: It does its job well, but it should have an option to not force you to use captures, like The Great Suspender (no track).
- (2023-07-10) Anno Niem: It worked nicely, I primarily used it to speed up browser startup when lots of tabs are open. Sadly with the update to Vivaldi 6.1 it makes the browser crash right after startup before you can do anything with it. Not everyone seems to be having this problem. Maybe it doesn't play nice with specific websites? Tried resetting the settings but it still seems to keep data on which tabs were suspended even after closing them all and then reopening them from bookmarks. Is there a way to do a real clean install of the extension? Well for now I'm stuck sticking to Vivaldi 6.0 or I could start looking for an alternative. Any suggestions?
- (2023-07-02) BG Bruno: it just work 😃 pros cons + shortcuts + automation + start states + session manager + full url in suspended url -- so when plugin is disabled still exist origin url - very small popup menu items - missing full disable image screenshot for better performance in suspended tab - missing disable url preview in content in suspended tab - cannot uncheck disabled whitelist from chrome icon menu specs • cpu : -1.5% every 15s • memory : 60 MB • disk : 4+ MB -- depends on feature " Suspended Screenshots " • network : 0 MB >> req features • whitelist with suspend interval
- (2023-06-30) 武術有栖: 卵用没有,内存占用都没低哪怕那么一丁点……
- (2023-06-22) Сергей Дорошенко: Добре
- (2023-05-23) S B: This is the worst extension I have seen to manage memory. "Unsuspend All" option doesn't work on mac.
- (2023-05-22) Hanggi Anggono: Great extensions but it would be nice if it doesn't store time mark when suspending a youtube tab, because youtube already store our watch progress anyway
- (2023-05-18) Samo: I'm using an old laptop and I use my browser a lot so I have many tabs opened which makes it slower but at the same time I need these tabs for later use, bookmarking them is not efficient since I'll use most of them only one time, this is when this extension becomes so helpful and necessary for me to help me keep these tabs and at the same time prevent them from making my browsing experience slower, thank you so much <3
- (2023-05-14) R. B.R.: i hope i am wrong, but i keep on getting some redirects when i enter some websites which i am suspicious may be linked to tabsuspender. the website is "sweetydeals.com". Is tab suspender code available for checking?
- (2023-05-12) Suhail Kawsara: I love this extension. But after prolonged usage, the extension storage grows to 600 MB. How can I reduce its size?
- (2023-05-10) team admin: so far the best app for google chrome..but I do not understand this option: (looks scary to me) Advanced Discard Tabs (New) Enable automatic discard suspended tabs to free up even more memory
- (2023-05-08) КОЛЯ Колян: как включить русский язык? как полностью отключить скриншот?
- (2023-05-08) Peter Kionga-Kamau: Why does it think that one hour is sufficient? I want to suspend tabs that have been inactive for more than a day. It is odd that this is limited to an hour.
- (2023-04-16) Amc CMA: I love this extension , but i wish there will be a firefox version :))
- (2023-04-10) Nick Katz: Tabs disappear with this plugin. I have the latest macbook and running the extension in Brave. Tabs I have had opened for many months all of a sudden disappeared a few minutes after adding this extension. I thought I may have done something and recovered them through tab history. But it happened 2 more times after that within a few minutes. It seemed like the perfect solution, but clearly has issues. Removed, and looking for a plugin that works.
- (2023-04-05) Nurihan Park: what does it mean by "discard tabs" in the advanced settings? is it auto closing unused tabs or just the ram cache?
- (2023-03-31) Dung Luc: it almost reduce 85% ram usage, fast reload, good function
- (2023-03-31) Honoré SABATIER: Je met 5 étoiles parce que j'ai utilisé cette extension à l’extrême, jour après jour pendant des années sans vraiment y penser. C'est dommage qu'aujourd'hui elle ait planté sans que je puisse en déterminer la cause et qu'elle n'ait pas su récupérer plus de 300 onglets suspendus une fois "réparée" par chrome. Il n'existe pas d'outils pour gérér des sessions lourdes de 300 onglets, et il m'arrive d'atteindre et de dépasser les 1000 onglets. Le gestionnaire de session serait salutaire s'il en était capable, si on pouvait revenir à une session quelques minutes en arrière, ce qui doit être possible. Edit: Quand j'en arrive à plus de 1000 onglets (1300 cette fois ci) je m'attelle à la lourde tâche d'enregistrer tous ces onglets dans mes favoris en tant qu'archive. Je dois réveiller et sauver chaque fenêtre une par une avec tous ses onglets, sur une dizaine de fenêtres. On ne peut pas récupérer directement l'adresse d'un onglet suspendu. J'aimerais vraiment avoir une fonction qui me permette de sauver en favoris tous les onglets d'une fenêtre sans avoir à les réveiller.
- (2023-03-23) Ahmet: i would like to know if this addon's source code ise public/open source i highly suspect this addon has a built in "redirect" module interfering in between redirects from google search results to the final destinaton web pages. a redirect "tracker" domain caught my eye for just a split second right before i landed on "carrefoursa.com" , the redirect tracker url was "https://sweetydeals.com/?gclid=NbpaVNvgbuU2sDllqGK1tpbfNI1919B1ai30FJAqPwSfblVP1Y5abNP" google.com ->https://sweetydeals.com/?gclid=*** -> final url (which in my case was carrefoursa.com) to whomever it may concern, please acknowledge the potential thereat and act accordingly
- (2023-03-17) mia: ty for help, even better than edge product
- (2023-03-16) Kodi Nel: Necessary component of my browser now, good work.
- (2023-03-15) T C (Chuck): Lassan három éve használom, ennél jobb és hasznosabb dolgot még nem telepíjtettem böngészőbe. Állandóan nyitva tartok legalább 1000 oldalt az ADHD-m miatt, ez a csodálatos plugin meg szünetelteti amit épp nem használok. Mindent lehet állíjtani, hibátlanul működik! I've been using this plugin for almost three years, and I've never installed anything better and more useful in my browser. I keep at least 1000 pages open all the time due to my ADHD, and this amazing plugin suspends what I'm not using. Everything can adjusted and it works flawlessly!
- (2023-03-09) Kristol: Fail to suspend the Youtube site sometimes, then cause high CPU use.
- (2023-02-23) Daniel R.: Netflix is flickering when I pause an ongoing movie. Yes,this extension cause it.
- (2023-02-14) Maruhan Park: Are there any extensions that makes suspended tabs retain static data? I don't see why I can't scroll through suspended tabs
- (2023-01-30) Khanh Dinh: the only extension to do what i want : not load new background tabs until selected. but its not consistent. only work in about 1 out of 5 times. improvement on that would be nice. also an option to discard older tabs when a hard limit is reached would make more sense
- (2023-01-29) JosQi: I always give ratings but don't usually write comments unless is Super Good or Super Poor. After trying all similar plugins or software. this is the best plug-in/extension that has all functionality to fulfill every human need. ** THE BEST ** =Up-Todate. (this is how every human should check before wasting time. Browser keeps updating, consistent updated plug-in/firmware/extension to prevent code crash or heavy code is very important) =Hover and restore (really convenient, those sleep tabs can just restore by hovering the center big icon) =Suspend/Make it sleep based on your choice. (after some time, you will start to click the pinned icon on the menu bar for this function. I started to find this useful when ad-hoc jobs pop-up while in the mid of Researching/Online Learning/Shopping. Therefore, I just click the pinned icon to suspend all windows/tabs/others, then full force on the pop-up job. If back to the old time... need to save it all in the collection or close the browser to restore it later before working on heavy software like Adobe Premier, Photoshop, AI, 3D software, or FB ads....) =Limit tab open & auto Close (most people may think is useless, but is good for self-discipline & Chinese boss company & Kidz. we tend to drift away as browsers are very smart to show "you may also like" ads nowadays. in according to limit drift away action or complete task/research in time. this function is super good. Educate your kids to do that, as most pages, open only wanted a few lines or phrases. they can just select-> right-click ->save to collection. Be a tidy clean kid~ otherwise, keep buying tons of RAM is no use.) **POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE** =Automatic Discard Un-use Tab being ticked as default. (most humans don't go into “Setting” after getting anything. so this function ticked as default will cause them don't understand why tabs closed themselves. I understand this is a new function and thank you for your hard coding work, but to announce it in default ticked. will cause Human panic, they forget can just Right click the mouse at the menu bar to restore those closed windows/tabs) =Add in Close duplicated function. (Human memory is short, always open repeated links in different content, or the website likes to pop out in the new tab. adding this function to close those duplicated old tabs is very helpful for humans. full link match will do this auto-action, an advance function could be... after some ../*/*/ sublink or query strings only auto close as duplicated) =Group same domain Tab function. (since the Ori code is working on tab functionality. adding those tab-related extensive coding won't make the plug-in/extension heavy. it will be lighter than humans installing several plug-ins/extensions from different places/developers. this can be optional for human tick by themself.) **Conclusion** you or your team's thoughtfulness had create such a good plug-in, look forward to seeing more of your stuff.
- (2023-01-04) Gabriel Fernandez: what about removing the extension entry from the context menu?
- (2023-01-01) Лириам Вей: Проблема! Блокирует некоторые сайты. Никогда не подумал бы, что из-за этого расширения. Например не могу зайти в личный кабинет Blizzard или на форум. После ввода логина/пароля перебрасывает на окно активации аутентификатора, а потом обратно! А обратно не должно перекидывать! В итоге залогиниться не могу, приходится выключать это расширение и логиниться без него.
- (2022-12-17) Auzuru: Well for me whenever I press "unsuspend all" it just completely stops working forever and I have to uninstall/reinstall to make it work again... But else it's a really useful thing. I don't know what's up with this app but every time I have it for a few weeks it just stops working, this time it wasn't even because of the "unsuspend all", I can't reopen suspended tabs, nor can I suspend tabs, however it says in the history that those tabs are getting succesfully suspended lol
- (2022-12-14) 无相孤君(无相孤君): You can't automatically switch to another language, the default is English. Hope the author can revise
- (2022-11-24) Uzzajan: nearly perfect but tab icon changed to broom pic after suspending. so, i can't see original icon site and hard to find works. please remove of have option for original icon site.
- (2022-11-11) Skay x: Loving the extension so far. I am havin problems with some logins. When I try to login the websites reload. Login works when without the extension.
- (2022-10-25) Denis Shkerin: Отлично!