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🧠 The Best Tab Suspender for Chrome — Save Memory, Speed Up Your Browser
The Great Suspender Reloaded is a powerful tab suspender that automatically freezes inactive tabs to free up RAM and CPU. If your browser gets slow because of too many open tabs — this extension is the solution.
Every open tab uses 50–300 MB of memory. With 20+ tabs, that's gigabytes of RAM wasted on pages you aren't even looking at. This tab suspender replaces idle tabs with a lightweight page, saving 1–4+ GB of RAM instantly. Click a suspended tab to restore it — right where you left off, scroll position included.
Works as a tab suspender, tab freezer, and memory saver — all in one clean, private extension.
🔄 HOW IT WORKS
When a tab sits unused for a configurable time (from 1 minute to 2 weeks), the extension suspends it — unloading all heavy content from memory. The tab shows a lightweight page with the original title and URL.
Restore a suspended tab in any of these ways: • Click anywhere on the page • Press F5 • Use the keyboard shortcut (default: Ctrl+Shift+S / ⌘+⇧+S on Mac) • Enable auto-unsuspend — tabs restore the moment you switch to them
Unlike Chrome's built-in Memory Saver, this tab suspender gives you full control: whitelist, custom timers, session management, keyboard shortcuts, screen previews, and much more.
⚡ FEATURES
⏱️ Automatic Suspension Timer Choose when to suspend idle tabs — from 1 minute to 2 weeks, or set to "Never" for manual-only mode.
🛡️ Smart Protection Rules The extension is smart about what to keep active: 📌 Never suspend pinned tabs (Gmail, Slack, Spotify stay live) 🔊 Never suspend tabs playing audio or video 📝 Never suspend tabs with unsaved form data 👁️ Never suspend the active tab in each window 📡 Never suspend tabs when offline 🔋 Never suspend tabs when charging
📋 Whitelist Protect specific URLs, domains, or regex patterns from ever being suspended. The "Test whitelist" button verifies your rules against all open tabs.
🖱️ One-Click Actions (Popup Menu) • Suspend or unsuspend a single tab • Suspend or unsuspend only selected tabs • Suspend all other tabs in the window • Unsuspend all tabs at once • Add a page or domain to the whitelist
⌨️ 10 Keyboard Shortcuts • Suspend/Unsuspend active tab (Ctrl+Shift+S) • Pause/Unpause suspension • Suspend/Unsuspend selected tabs • Suspend all in current window • Force suspend all in current window • Unsuspend all in current window • Suspend all in all windows • Force suspend all in all windows • Unsuspend all in all windows All shortcuts are customizable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
📂 Session Manager Save, export, import, and restore your browsing sessions: • View your current session with all windows and tabs • Browse automatically saved session snapshots • Save and name sessions for later • Export/import sessions as text files • Restore sessions fully loaded or kept suspended Great for saving a "work" session before switching contexts.
📸 Screen Capture Preview Optionally capture a screenshot before suspending a tab: • Disabled (best performance) • Top of screen only • Entire page (full scrollable content) • High quality mode
💾 Chrome Discard Integration Combine suspension with Chrome's native tab discarding for up to 500% more memory savings. Each suspended tab uses almost zero RAM.
⚠️ Low Memory Auto-Suspend When system memory gets critically low, the extension suspends tabs before Chrome discards them — preserving your screenshots and session data.
🌙 Dark & Light Theme Choose a theme for suspended tab pages.
🔗 Settings Sync Sync your settings across all Chrome browsers logged into the same Google account.
🕶️ Incognito Support Works in incognito mode with session features disabled for privacy.
🩺 Crash Recovery If Chrome crashes, a recovery page appears automatically. Restore all your tabs with one click.
🖱️ Right-Click Context Menu Enable the context menu for 15 suspension actions from any page, including "Open Link in New Suspended Tab."
🔒 SAFE, PRIVATE & 100% LOCAL
The original Great Suspender was the world's most popular tab suspender extension with over 2 million users. In 2020, new owners injected malicious code — tracking browsing and executing remote scripts. Google removed it in February 2021.
The Great Suspender Reloaded is a completely clean, safe fork:
✅ No tracking, no analytics, no telemetry ✅ No external requests or remote scripts ✅ No third-party servers ✅ Open-source code (GPL 2.0) — fully auditable on GitHub ✅ Chrome Web Store verified ✅ Manifest V3 — latest security standard ✅ Everything runs locally — your data never leaves your browser
💡 TIPS
• Start with a 10–15 minute timer and adjust for your workflow • Pin always-needed tabs and enable "Never suspend pinned tabs" • Enable form input protection so you never lose unsaved work • Use Ctrl+Shift+S to quickly suspend or unsuspend any tab • Always unsuspend all tabs before uninstalling the extension • Save important sessions before closing Chrome • For 50+ tabs, enable "Discard After Suspend" for max memory savings
💻 OPEN SOURCE & COMMUNITY
Compatible with all Chromium-based browsers.
GitHub: https://github.com/tim-dim-ext/The-Great-Suspender-Reloaded Support the project: https://www.patreon.com/c/The_Great_Suspender_Reloaded
Latest reviews
- Julian Gentili
- It does not work as well as it used to. When the tab goes to sleep, it does not wake up upon viewing often.
- Schala Zeal
- Until any of the great suspender ports fix the favicon error which happens on every suspended tab, after reopening the browser (the website icon converts to a hidden, default suspender icon), NOBODY should use this. The Marvellous Suspender has the identical issue. ALL of you should use brave browser with the great suspender notrack, because it's the only way to not have this awful glitch nobody seems to care about. I have to literally click on every single tab after restarting my computer, or browser, because of this just to see the website icon: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/the-great-suspender-notra/ahkbmjhfoplmfkpncgoedjgkajkehcgo
- Benjiaminajshshdhs
- ruined my browser. all the tabs are broken now unless i have the app installed. worst extension ever, legit mallware...
- Bob
- I used it for the first time yesterday. I think I might have some settings wrong, but basically kept the default and removed one of them. On one browser with like 50 tabs, it didn't work at all. On my other browser with about 20, it suspended about 3. I figured the settings would save me from doing anything manually. Am I wrong? Maybe just take some time, but I figured settings would suspend all my tabs after an hour.......and then I log in today and click to reload what I want; which is what happened with about 3 of them.
- Hafiz Sheraz Ali
- i find it o helpfull
- Floresan Lamba
- Suddenly deleted my suspended pages, and uninstalled itself. Not trustable.
- eduzer duzer
- great!
- Aj R
- The old source code worked like a champ, archived from before it became malware, until google updated Chrome and killed off a lot of old extensions that didn't use a modern manifest. As this is built on old TGS code, it should work equally, yet it does not. Hotkeys regularly fail, it does not honour some of the checkboxes the way the original TGS did. Not sure why this is, but the old one worked without fail. This version is inconsistent at best, and more often than not, entirely unreliable.
- DzHM HM.Dz1772
- Works great, and has so much option to work with Chrome. Thank you for your great work.
- Uğur Can BULUT
- The 'click to reload' feature is so stupid. When I try to switch back to Chrome from another application, sometimes the tab I suspended remains visible as the last thing I saw, and as soon as I click anywhere on the page, the suspended tab reloads and becomes active again. Which idiot designed this? Making the entire page area sensitive to this action, instead of putting a small button in a large area to unsuspend it, is nothing short of idiocy.
- kathan patel
- Guess who's back?? Back again? I am so glad this extension is back. Love the extension, kudos to developers
- Sava Kovalenko
- This is a total lifesaver... I cannot thank the developer enough for porting this to manifest v3! This is an unmatched extension, with all other extensions either having extensive tracking, not working properly or asking for a subscription. This is a safe version of the beloved great suspended that I have used for years, which is fast, light on resources and most importantly has session management, so I can restore and even port all my sessions to any PC I want. Well done!
- Yaniv Barzilai
- Hi, The Great Suspender Reloaded is wonderful. Thank you !!! The new version 1.0.1 was installed automatically on PC restart. I believe there are few issues with it. 1. I had to reconfigure settings that were not kept. 2. Compared to version 1.0.0, tabs take much more memory now, even with Chrome memory-saving enabled & screenshot disabled. 3. Some tabs get the extension icon after browser restart. Original icon can be recovered by a single click. 4. Not all tabs are being automatically suspended after 10min. Some tabs manage to escape that "destiny" Best regards, and thank you again Yaniv
- Honda Civic
- Very admirable effort saving us from the Great suspender No-Track which only works on Brave, for now until its gone forever once Brave can't support ManifestV2. You're amazing. But there is a significant problem which needs fixed before I think this can be a viable alternative. After re-opening the browser, tabs suspended end up having a Great Suspender icon instead of the website favicon (on the tab), so after reopening, you can't see what sites you even have anymore. You'd have to click every single tab for a second just to load the icons, every time you restart. As well as this, the normal text to the left of the URL bar is empty, like its missing something, or it says "The Great". You also can't unsuspend them without having to click each site, loading it, and THEN you can mass-unsuspend them. Everything else works, auto-suspend, keyboard shortcuts, should be a full upgrade. This seems to only happen in Brave Browser in my testing. Which makes it worse honestly, nobody should use base chrome. I definitely have to use no-track until this is fixed, or I have to somehow patch your extension and make one myself. If you have a donation tip jar I would give a good tip for this to be fixed.
- Diego Hare
- Amazing!
- P
- Appreciate you making this extension but please make the code available on GitHub! Saying "this code is totally safe, trust us" and then refusing to take 30 seconds to upload the code to GitHub (especially given that previous extensions like "The Great Suspender (notrack)" had public GitHub pages from day one) makes it seem very sketchy, like there is in fact something to hide.
- Vatsalya Prakash
- Please please fix the dark version. Works amazing overall. Was using the fork until it was no longer supported.
- Steven Hackney
- Works great, and has option to work with Chrome's built-in memory, saving a lot more memory, than traditional suspenders. Thanks!
- Andrew Barker
- Tabs aren't being automatically suspended, also dark theme doesn't work in the settings it's still white please fix
- E B
- Absolute 5 stars, thank you Developer!!! This is hands down the best tab suspender and also allows you to save your sessions on Settings > Session Management. P.S. If you were using the old Marvelous Suspender (or similar) and your tabs won't open with the new Chrome update, it's easy to re-open your tabs. Go to the URL address bar and scroll to the right until you see "uri=https..." just highlight everything to the left of https and delete. Then your tab will reappear!
- Weol
- Developer, you're amazing! I’m praying for you and your entire family. I sincerely wish you health, happiness, and peace in everything you do. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing back to life the best Chrome extension ever — you’ve truly made a difference, and I’m deeply grateful.
- Ryan Story
- Developer, if you can incorporate a way to adopt open tabs, suspended by now dead extensions, that would be incredible! I'd be happy to contribute with a donation towards it. Thanks so much
- X XX
- I hope developers can add a function to import frozen tags from old versions of TGS.
- NOCauseEffect
- Great! But I can't seem to find the GitHub link for this project. Is it safe to use? Thanks!
- Josel Mariano
- Good lord someone made a new one that is more compatible with new chrome versions, works like a charm