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Збільшіть швидкість браузера та зменшіть навантаження на пам’ять, коли у вас є численні відкриті вкладки.
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Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that automatically reduces the memory load of open?but inactive?tabs. This also helps portable devices to save battery.
Extension preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityhxUPp3y8
Features:
1. Speeds up your browser and minimizes memory usage: Inactive, idle, or forgotten tabs can be auto-discarded after a configurable period of time, or discarded manually from the toolbar menu.
2. Designate specific tabs (websites) to be whitelisted to prevent discarding.
3. Discarded tabs can be retained after closing and re-opening your browser.
4. The tab?s favicon displays the discarded state.
5. Tabs are restored with all information intact (like scroll position or the content of text boxes).
6. When a tab is discarded, no JavaScript code or dom event is active (basically, the tab is paused).
Options (there are a few options to customize when a tab gets discarded):
1. When a tab is pinned
2. When there is a media source playing inside a tab
3. When the computer is connected to a power source
4. When there is a form element (with changes) that has not yet been submitted.
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-07) lakshay jain: works great !!!
- (2025-07-05) Raul Gomes: multiple browsers. Awesome!
- (2025-05-19) Daniel Connelly: The basic settings work fine for me! I don't use advanced settings. I really appreciate being able to save my computer from overheating or using more electricity. This is a real money saver!
- (2025-05-18) Tony “Fan4eG” W.: "Toolbar left-click action" option dont work on just press LMB to suspend =\
- (2025-05-11) Roy Liao: Sometimes is working but sometimes stop working... maybe because I put PC to sleep and wake it up? don't know how to fix it.
- (2025-04-24) Shmuel Treiger: Excellent plugin, thank you! Feature request: Be able to select which options appear in the drop down when I click on the extension. I find myself all too often clicking "discard tabs in other windows" which can be super annoying when I've loaded a bunch of tabs to read offline.
- (2025-04-11) p a t r i c k royce: Good stuff! recommend!!
- (2025-04-05) Blade. Ry: Was great when it worked, currently half the tabs arent getting suspended no matter the options set. Some that are suspended dont show the ZZZ or the dot suspended icon on tab. Did factory reset multiple times, 50-50 odds of anything working. Until its updated, feel free to avoid. Edit, on further testing i noticed tabs going missing. I know for a fact i never close these tabs. Did they got closed on browser restart or while browser was working is unknown.
- (2025-03-28) l89 strike: This extension is honestly pretty meh. It works okay at first, but it doesn’t keep all the tabs suspended. After a while, if the computer sits idle for a few minutes, some tabs just randomly wake up for no reason. Man, I really miss THE GREAT SUSPENDER NO TRACK—that one actually did the job right Edit : this extension is totally garbage edit 2: don't use this extension you will lost all your tabs one by one without knowing
- (2025-03-20) T: need an update... stopped working
- (2025-03-06) 偷尼(偷尼 Tony): If it did like other extensions and replaced the suspended tab with a blank page or screensaver it would be much better.
- (2025-03-04) Crab Synth: Great App... Does what it says... keeps my browsing session ultra light! Kudos to the entire team!
- (2025-02-19) HyperLXD: Decent tab suspender that saves youtube timestamps (a must for me). However I find how it imediatelly unsuspends once I select the suspended tab quite annoying. If it did like other extensions and replaced the suspended tab with a blank page or screensaver it would be much better to me, but maybe it can't be helped with this one.
- (2025-02-12) irfan the Grey: Beside ublock origin and sponsorBlock, probably the greatest extension out there. Thnkas for everything you do.
- (2024-12-31) BravGo: Doesn't discard OneTab.
- (2024-12-16) Nguyễn Quang Minh: Why is this extension got suspend? It was working so good.
- (2024-12-10) Alex Stockwell: i'm not sure if there has been a change in the extension or in chrome or both, but the performance of this extension has been pretty poor lately and does not seem to free up any memory. there seems to be a persistent memory leak. if you run discard other tabs it brings all windows on to the same desktop which is awful and then the discarding loop seems to stall if you have a lot of tabs so you are never sure if it is still discarding or has stalled/stopped permanently. running it again seems to refresh a bunch of windows and then stuck in the same state with no release of memory. not sure if it is working properly in the background or not, just seems to not work anymore.
- (2024-11-24) Mad Djimi: When you go to a discarded tab, it reloads automatically. It's inconvenient. Add the functionality (setting) to reload the tab manually only.
- (2024-11-15) S T: :( not working anymore.
- (2024-10-15) 아셀리아: There's an annoying situation where a tab I was using is suspended right after switching to another tab. It would be nice to have the option to protect the tab I was just using (set a time in minutes).
- (2024-10-07) Utpal Parajuli: Excellent for low Ram devices, still excellent for high ram devices!
- (2024-09-28) wa da: not working
- (2024-08-30) Hung Le: Was working great, 5/5, but recently discard all other tabs stopped working. Only discard this tab works. Also would be great if there was an discard ALL tabs in this window, so I could discard a whole window without having to first discard all other tabs, then discard the current active tab.
- (2024-08-29) Huber Spoter: best for economy
- (2024-08-20) Akaki Ujarashvili: would be good for this to be possible by right clicking the tab
- (2024-08-03) Richard N Haire: Have LOVED this extension on Firefox ... I'm currently using Brave (Beta / Chrome 127) and as David and Rickard have mentioned, it doesn't appear to be working .... "manual" discard works, but not "auto". Hopefully this can be fixed soon! Thanks!
- (2024-07-25) Rickard Åberg: Like David said, I don't think this extension is working as it should right nów. With Chrome 126 it doesn't seem to auto discard anything, it works if I manually discard tabs tho'. When it works, it's great... so I give this 5 stars and hope that the developer can fix the issue.
- (2024-07-16) David Bookbinder: Until recently, I would have given this a five-star review, as it greatly reduced the Chrome memory footprint. I typically have about 250 tabs open, which would soon become unmanageable. However, in the last few weeks, it no longer seems to work except when I close and reopen Chrome. Otherwise, tabs stay open indefinitely, even when I tell it to close all tabs. I assume there's been a change in Chrome that has interfered with it and hope the developer fixes it soon!
- (2024-07-08) Uffa Chebarba (Evolution Inside): Great !
- (2024-07-08) Step 1 Step 2: I'm using 2 profiles in Chrome. It would only work in one profile even if the other has it. Working on 2 profiles simultaneously sometimes works but most of the time it doesn't
- (2024-06-26) mf lau: chrome builtin memory saver is so goddamned "minimalist", thanks to this ext
- (2024-05-24) Robert Carbonell: AMAZING and thank you. What a huge difference. I set my settings to disable every 3 mins with two tabs are exceeded. So everytime I open a 3rd tab or more the other tabs are frozen.
- (2024-05-16) HIDEKAZU AZUMA: I have assigned the behavior setting when left clicking on the toolbar to discarding the tab, but it does not work and I am discarding it when I right click. I would like to see a correction.
- (2024-05-16) HIDEKAZU AZUMA: I have assigned the behavior setting when left clicking on the toolbar to discarding the tab, but it does not work and I am discarding it when I right click. I would like to see a correction.
- (2024-05-09) Ahmed Seoudi: Works great most of the time!
- (2024-05-09) Ahmed Seoudi: Works great most of the time!
- (2024-05-04) Kate L: I love this extension, and it's incredibly helpful, since I have 100+ tabs open most of the time. But recently it's not obeying the on-click option I've set, which is to just discard the active tab. Instead I have to right-click and select "discard tab" from that. I'm also going to contact the dev about this but I figured I'd mention it here as well. Overall it's a fantastic extension, and has worked flawlessly up to this point!
- (2024-04-30) Emanuel Kingsley: Very helpful extension that has restored speed to my excessive tab-burdened browsing routine. However, one tiny yet huge suggestion: why not change the name to Tab Pause, Tab Park, Tab Time-Out, Tab Hiatus, Tab Breather, Tab Back Burner, Tab Respite, Tab Hold or something like that? Discard sounds like you're getting rid of the tab, as in deleting it forever. It's a bit confusing...
- (2024-04-16) River Thesis: worked great for 2 years then just stopped working entirely, even after total reinstall, reinstalled browser too n cleared all data n reset etc but nothing. browser using is vivaldi. no alteration of settings fixes it either.
- (2024-04-10) jadi zadi: great! the only thing i would like to have is to change Discarding options in: Discard inactive tabs after x in "seconds" instead of "minutes" because minutes is too long as a time unit and my average is 20 seconds to 40 sec to kill a tab if it is not active. And i cannot do that with the this extenstion even putting [0.33] in the minutes Text Input does not accept it as minutes format. please update it.
- (2024-04-07) Jesús Gildardo Mejía Cortés: Es una de mis extensiones imprescindibles, la función de suspender automáticamente se carga la página es excelente.
- (2024-03-14) Dino Korah: Almost 5 star! I recently noticed that Jira Cloud have been hogging up my CPU. So I started using this extension and it has effectively made my laptop 50% more powerful in effect :D ... Ok, thats a little hyped, but YKWIM! The only issue I have is when I enable "Immediately discard the following hostnames when their tab is not active" with Jira URL added to the input. I can't seem to temporarily disable these discards via the menu options "Disable Auto Discards globally for X hours" or "Keep Selected tabs for this Session".
- (2024-02-06) Евгений Фалеев: Расширение было лучшим. С двумя последними обновлениями сначала выгружало и закрепленные вкладки, теперь вообще не работает После обновления 0.6.8 снова выгружает закрепленные вкладки
- (2024-01-24) Alex Ognenskiy: Great extension ty. It might be helpful to have an option to "discard tabs in the collapsed group"
- (2024-01-24) Alex Ognenskiy: Great extension ty. It might be helpful to have an option to "discard tabs in the collapsed group"
- (2024-01-24) DAVID GUALDRON: Amazing! Thank you so much for this extension!
- (2024-01-24) DAVID GUALDRON: Amazing! Thank you so much for this extension!
- (2024-01-23) Nicole Ahmed: This is excellent. Makes my computer run much cooler and protects from Chrome hogging resources from other applications. I use it conjunction with a tab group/management extension too. Very customisable. Lots of options. highly recommend.
- (2024-01-23) Nicole Ahmed: This is excellent. Makes my computer run much cooler and protects from Chrome hogging resources from other applications. I use it conjunction with a tab group/management extension too. Very customisable. Lots of options. highly recommend.
- (2024-01-15) Artemi Lebedev: How to change language?