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Unload / suspend / hibernate idle tabs to reduce memory and cpu usage.
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Unload idle tabs to free your precious memory and cpu resources!
Tiny Suspender will automatically suspend/hibernate background tabs for you, greatly reducing overall system resource usage without you having to take any action. You can set how long to wait before suspending idle tabs and configure a whitelist to exclude certain pages from automatic suspension.
Features:
- Form Detection: Tiny Suspender will also try to detect active form to avoid automatically suspending page with unsubmitted form
- Audio Detection (optional): prevent autosuspending tab that plays music in the background.
- Snooze: Temporarily prevent autosuspension on a specific tab
- Whitelist: Excludes specifics domains, pages, tabs or pinned tabs.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Suspend tabs without moving your hand away from your keyboard.
- Dark Mode theme (optional)
- Experimental feature: Use Chrome's native tab discard feature to save even more resources when your background tabs get suspended.
Feedback is always welcome!
- Source code and issue tracking are available at https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender
- Due to limitation of Chrome Web Store developer portal, extension developers are not automatically notified every time a user leave a feedback to report an issue. Please use email or github issue report ( https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender/issues ) if you need fast response.
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Chrome Permissions used in this extension:
- tabs & activeTab: allows various tab suspension/restore features and form detection feature.
- contextMenus: allows adding "suspend tab" menu item in right click context menu.
- storage: allows saving extension configuration
- alarm: allows centralized and more reliable autosuspension timer
- chrome://favicon/* : allows retrieving suspended page's favicon.
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Changelog:
- v1.3.0:
- Added dark mode toggle (thanks Abdusco for the pull request on github!)
- v1.2.0:
- Happy new year!
- Added an option to skip autosuspension when offline
- Added support for keyboard shortcuts
- Tiny Suspender will now try to restore tab scroll position
- v1.1.0:
- Added option to skip pinned tabs from automatic suspension
- "Suspend All Tabs" and "Suspend Other Tabs" now will skip whitelisted pages.
- Added experimental support for Chrome native tab discard feature. Enable it from the settings screen.
- v1.0.1: Minor bugfix
- v1.0.0: We have reached version 1!
- improved autosuspension timer by using Chrome's alarm api. Requires new permission.
- UI improvements. Now you can always see tab suspension status from the popup. Status is also reflected as color-coded icon
- improved form detection.
- added an option to enable autorestore when a suspended tab is brought to foreground.
- added an option to prevent autosuspending audible tabs. Useful for online music player.
- v0.1.4: fix a bug in suspension procedure.
- v0.1.3: removed unnecessary permissions.
- v0.1.2: switching away from unloaded page willl trigger automatic suspend timer.
- v0.1.1: fixed bug in whitelisting and auto-suspension feature.
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-12) Chris Pelaez: Works great! I only deduct 1 star for you need to hover over the suspended tab to view the favicon of the website you have suspended...this becomes annoying when you have many suspended tabs. I will update to 5 stars if they update this.
- (2025-05-10) A A: Will break your tabs if you uninstall. Highly dangerous. Unless you use the Native Discard function -- trying now and hope it works. The same tab breaking problem goes for all other suspenders I've tried which are actually worse than this one. At least this one provides the safe Native Discard function.
- (2025-04-11) l89 strike: Please add an option in the settings to suspend automatically all tabs on startup My browser crashed because this option doesn't exist. It's essential for users with too many tabs
- (2025-03-22) Issachar Lee (RGB 山洞原人的玩物): Work as described. It would be great if the extension shows website screenshot instead of blank background. That's all I asked for. Meanwhile it will be the suspender to use until "Tab Suspender" support latest v3 coding.
- (2025-03-22) Peter X: great tool , the only problem i have is icon color when is green i can see it but when it's gray i need to look for it , since i'm using dark mode them.
- (2025-03-21) Wehuty: As of now - the most adeqate v3 replacement for "the great/marvellous suspender". Still wondering though if it possidle to use native chrome discarding on tabs discarded by this extension.
- (2025-03-01) Sh: works as advertised. I would like screenshot as background of the site when it is suspended, instead of grey background Thank you!
- (2024-12-20) Luginon Luginon: -it was working OK, even on several accounts. But for the last 10 days or so when i click on it it's opening page options forever so i can't choose options, it still works automatics. It's the same on several machines, so it's not up to PC. AT least i think so. So what happened i have to idea. So i then switch into setting on chorme etc option remove the tiny suspender and reinstall it and it works for 1 day. And i'm in the loop of constant installing and reinstalling in order not to loose 1000+ tabs. IMPORTNAT! When you uninstall it read in settings and choose ''Native tab d'' or you will lost your tabs as i did in one window.
- (2024-12-15) Marcello C. Valentino: works great! It significantly reduces the memory consumption of inactive tabs by replacing each with HTML page where you need to click anywhere on the page to reload, which is very different from simply sleeping tabs as the latter essentially only pauses JavaScript of inactive tabs, but not necessarily stops all background activities, which can be inspected through Task Manager if you're on Windows. Anyway, additionally, this could also have dark mode to reduce the dazzling from white screen :) (Edit: sorry for my oversight, I've just found "toggle dark mode" in the extension settings, so don't mind that)
- (2024-11-03) Roland J: I've tried a few tab suspender extensions and this one by far is the most polished and well developed. Other tab suspender extensions also will suspend system tabs, like settings, mail (Vivaldi only), etc. Not this one! I hope development of this never stops!
- (2024-10-31) Chris Pisano: Simple and does what it should.
- (2024-09-28) Salep: it does what it should do nothing more nothing less
- (2024-09-13) Chris Sampson: For my old Mac Mini with non upgradable 4GB ram this has been a game changer for me. Works perfectly. I waited for a week before writing this review and I have absolutely no complaints. I have quit Chrome and restarted my computer just to check and everything works fine. I suspend most tabs and check them twice a day [email, Skype, etc]. It actually has helped me cut down on frequent checking of my email. The only thing I would suggest is to have some way to have one click suspending - now I click on the extension icon in the tool bar and then click on suspend. So it is two clicks, one would be better but I am not complaining. Thank you to the developers.
- (2024-09-05) Hiệp Trương: It's simple and just works, no gimmicks. Every extensions should be or at least have a lite version like this. Kudos to the developer!!!
- (2024-08-13) Morteza Karimzadeh: I've tried many extensions as suspender. But This Tab Suspender is so user-friendly and easy to use. I loved it.
- (2024-06-24) Crystal Identity: It was working for fine for a really long time, and I was very happy with it. However, it has now stopped working, and I don't know why. I have turned off all other extensions, and it still won't work. For that reason, I am uninstalling it.
- (2024-06-06) Artemi Lebedev: All good but need suspend new background tabs and use native suspend system as default option This extension changes the address of links - if deleted or crashed you may lose them
- (2024-02-27) Вячеслав Kanazei: The whitelist does not work.
- (2024-02-27) natsu natsu: Good, it works as expected!
- (2024-01-22) Romain Racamier-Lafon: Works nicely but it would be great to have a screenshot of the suspended page instead of a blank page
- (2023-12-23) Andras Zodon: Very good extension and a must have for tab hoarders. Needs a couple of tweaks and some bug fixes but I highly recommend it.
- (2023-12-21) Alex: Spectacular for research papers! Literally the only comment I'd make is that occasionally it replaces the tab name with something like 'tinysuspender' which can be confusing, but overall it's really useful so I don't mind. Thank you!
- (2023-11-18) Jenci: This one far better solution alternative to The Great Suspender (deprecated in manifest v2). It can suspend them and not to load them after visit all websites, it's a big positive if you're tab hoarder and data saver.
- (2023-10-29) Yuks*: better than the "workona" one
- (2023-10-29) Yuks*: better than the "workona" one
- (2023-10-14) Andres Hurtado: me gustaria que los iconos de las pestañas se queden y no se reemplacen con el de la extension cuando estan suspendidas
- (2023-09-30) scavxo: Right click on context menu is missing an useful option Like Tiny Suspender -> Suspend other tabs, Suspend this tab.... other than that, its good.
- (2023-09-30) ArunROG87Razer: Right click on context menu is missing an useful option Like Tiny Suspender -> Suspend other tabs, Suspend this tab.... other than that, its good.
- (2023-09-08) Varnit Professional: This review for dev only. Hey dev, I am using your addon "Tiny Suspender" for almost 3 years since late 2019 after The Great Suspender become useless, and somehow your addon was useful, effective and never made me look back anywhere else. As a result, I am using it on all of my browsers wherever I could install this like on chrome, edge, brave, vivaldi and opera. But it works occasionally and sometimes that is also a failure. Major problems that I face while using your addon on edge. I have done settings within your addon to accept dark theme for itself and the pages suspended, but every other time, it is light/white. Next, pages both system pages and url pages, which I have requested your addon to not suspend, suspends itself thus not respecting any settings done. Examples like "edge://favorites/?id=1", "edge://history/all", "edge://wallet/", "edge://settings/passwords", "edge://apps/all" are whitelisted in your addon like this, edge://history/syncedTabs edge://favorites/ edge://favorites/?id=1 edge://favorites/?id=1 chrome-extension://fiedbfgcleddlbcmgdigjgdfcggjcion/management/management.html edge://settings/profiles edge://settings/privacy edge://favorites/ edge://newtab/ but still, these tabs are suspended. So, please look into these bugs. Also on opera, your addon fails to work. Also why your addon isnt available on edge addon store? Please consider adding to it. On chrome, it doesnt reflect in battery savings and tab resource usage. please check into that. Thanks. Will change my ratings once you resolve these bugs in edge and opera.
- (2023-09-08) Varnit Professional: This review for dev only. Hey dev, I am using your addon "Tiny Suspender" for almost 3 years since late 2019 after The Great Suspender become useless, and somehow your addon was useful, effective and never made me look back anywhere else. As a result, I am using it on all of my browsers wherever I could install this like on chrome, edge, brave, vivaldi and opera. But it works occasionally and sometimes that is also a failure. Major problems that I face while using your addon on edge. I have done settings within your addon to accept dark theme for itself and the pages suspended, but every other time, it is light/white. Next, pages both system pages and url pages, which I have requested your addon to not suspend, suspends itself thus not respecting any settings done. Examples like "edge://favorites/?id=1", "edge://history/all", "edge://wallet/", "edge://settings/passwords", "edge://apps/all" are whitelisted in your addon like this, edge://history/syncedTabs edge://favorites/ edge://favorites/?id=1 edge://favorites/?id=1 chrome-extension://fiedbfgcleddlbcmgdigjgdfcggjcion/management/management.html edge://settings/profiles edge://settings/privacy edge://favorites/ edge://newtab/ but still, these tabs are suspended. So, please look into these bugs. Also on opera, your addon fails to work. Also why your addon isnt available on edge addon store? Please consider adding to it. On chrome, it doesnt reflect in battery savings and tab resource usage. please check into that. Thanks. Will change my ratings once you resolve these bugs in edge and opera.
- (2023-08-24) Oleksandr Koshevierov: The extension works good untill you want to exclude some tab or site from being unloaded. It works few days and then forget all the settings and tabs are unloaded again.
- (2023-08-24) Oleksandr Koshevierov: The extension works good untill you want to exclude some tab or site from being unloaded. It works few days and then forget all the settings and tabs are unloaded again.
- (2023-07-22) Andre Panday: This extension works well but when you disable auto suspension for a specific tab or add the tab whitelist and have dark mode enable it disables dare mode for all suspended tabs.
- (2023-07-22) Andre Panday: This extension works well but when you disable auto suspension for a specific tab or add the tab whitelist and have dark mode enable it disables dare mode for all suspended tabs.
- (2023-05-03) Alejandro Mangioni: Best extension of all alternatives. Frees your memory and delivers! Thank you!
- (2023-04-20) Кирилл Солоненко: After removing it from browser it closed ALL tabs. SHAME on the developer. What a horrible extension.
- (2023-04-20) Кирилл Солоненко: After removing it from browser it closed ALL tabs. SHAME on the developer. What a horrible extension.
- (2023-04-01) Jiří Kříž: I would really appreciate the possibility of total oled black theme of the suspended page. Other than that, perfect extenson.
- (2023-04-01) Jiří Kříž: I would really appreciate the possibility of total oled black theme of the suspended page. Other than that, perfect extenson.
- (2023-03-31) RayDillanV: I've been using this extension going on two years now and it does it exactly what it says. It saves memory and usually makes my life easier... as someone working with software, I often have into the 30s+ in tabs open. You can customize it to not suspend websites or specific pages as well. Even though I have a lot of memory, this simple extension makes chrome my go-to despite its tendency to act like it needs more than 3 gigs max of ram to run multiple videos at once.
- (2023-03-31) RayDillanV: I've been using this extension going on two years now and it does it exactly what it says. It saves memory and usually makes my life easier... as someone working with software, I often have into the 30s+ in tabs open. You can customize it to not suspend websites or specific pages as well. Even though I have a lot of memory, this simple extension makes chrome my go-to despite its tendency to act like it needs more than 3 gigs max of ram to run multiple videos at once.
- (2022-11-20) Gangus K (Gangus is Gamer Tag): I used to stand by this Extension until settings STOPPED Working! No matter what time you put in this app suspends tabs almost immediately! It also does NOT work according to "White Listed" tabs and You'll LOSE Comments on Twitter or other sites when they too are all SUSPENDED!
- (2022-11-20) Gangus K (Gangus is Gamer Tag): I used to stand by this Extension until settings STOPPED Working! No matter what time you put in this app suspends tabs almost immediately! It also does NOT work according to "White Listed" tabs and You'll LOSE Comments on Twitter or other sites when they too are all SUSPENDED!
- (2022-09-27) Clemens Ratte-Polle: DANGER! You can lose all your tabs with Tiny Suspernde by deactivating it! :( Your tabs are NOT save! Use instead: Auto Tab Discard But the rest is good :) context-menue on tabs would be even better :) What about dark mode for suspended tabs, meaning white or black color? And could you make an option to open background tabs always in suspended mode? thx
- (2022-09-27) Clemens Ratte-Polle: DANGER! You can lose all your tabs with Tiny Suspernde by deactivating it! :( Your tabs are NOT save! Use instead: Auto Tab Discard But the rest is good :) context-menue on tabs would be even better :) What about dark mode for suspended tabs, meaning white or black color? And could you make an option to open background tabs always in suspended mode? thx
- (2022-06-27) Kenneth Thomas: BEWARE. Once you enable it-- there appears to be no way to back out of having your tabs controlled by it. If you disable, tabs it has suspended are lost. If you try "unsuspend all," no go. You're stuck. Tell it not to suspend any more tabs? It keeps doing so. And it obfuscates tab icons / names when it suspends. Naughty naughty, hard to work with.
- (2022-06-27) Kenneth Thomas: BEWARE. Once you enable it-- there appears to be no way to back out of having your tabs controlled by it. If you disable, tabs it has suspended are lost. If you try "unsuspend all," no go. You're stuck. Tell it not to suspend any more tabs? It keeps doing so. And it obfuscates tab icons / names when it suspends. Naughty naughty, hard to work with.
- (2022-06-09) Denis Huberland: I don't write often reviews but in this case, I'll gladly do it. I have tried several other similar tools but this one is really the best and easiest I tried. And more important it works as announced ! I advice it to everyone.
- (2022-06-09) Denis Huberland: I don't write often reviews but in this case, I'll gladly do it. I have tried several other similar tools but this one is really the best and easiest I tried. And more important it works as announced ! I advice it to everyone.
- (2022-04-27) Online ReD Settings: Simply the best, most versatile suspender out there. I use it in native mode, together with the "sloth" extension and it's a great combination. (suggestion: include the "sloth" functionality directly in Tiny Suspender)
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Rating
4.0789 (114 votes)
Last update / version
2024-09-25 / 2.0.4
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