Lazy Tabs

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Discard all inactive tabs (except pinned) at startup or by clicking an icon

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Lazy Tabs
Description from store

Automatically discards all tabs at startup or on demand (on icon click) for reducing memory consumption and unnecessary bandwidth usage.

Without tracking and any permissions. Source code: https://github.com/jman/lazy_tab

Latest reviews

Anonymous 2025-09-19

The most useful extension for Chrome. I have a lot of tabs open, and this extension helps me minimise my energy consumption to keep battery alive x100 times longer.

Celestin6669 2025-09-07

chrome lags for like 20 seconds and then it has 70% to crash...

Francesco Amendola 2025-08-20

I second the problem in wich when a new windows is opened, the other windows gets discarded, tested on MacOs, otherwise great app

Ali Reza 2025-07-11

I use this extension to stop chrome from reopening all of my tabs when open chrome, and it's works. The problem I'm have with this extension is every time I open a windows or a popup open (like a google login) it discard all of my open tabs! it's so annoying. this is happen to me in my Linux machine (Arch Linux with Gnome).

Movy LLC 2025-06-17

How come this is not included in Chrome by default??

Ammad 2025-06-08

Purrfect

Anastasiia Zelenova 2025-04-23

Thank you! Such a helpful tool for someone like me, obsessed with opening 300 tabs simultaneously :) Making my browser more efficient. Also I like how this cute little snail always there for me on the Chrome extensions panel.

Marco Ciarambino 2025-03-06

does not work with tab groups

Jesús Gildardo Mejía Cortés 2024-08-20

Excelente. Abro mas de 100 pestañas de una carpeta de favoritos y sin esta extensión Chrome se come toda la RAM de mi PC y todo es un caos. Solo hago clic en el ícono, se descartan todas las otras pestañas y todo vuelve a la normalidad. Por favor una opción para poder descartar pestañas fijadas. Gracias

Andrey Kubantsev 2024-04-01

Doesn't work for tab groups. Not tested with other types of startups.

Uffa Chebarba (Evolution Inside) 2023-11-06

It seems it does not work anymore after the last chrome update.

Uffa Chebarba (Evolution Inside) 2023-11-06

It seems it does not work anymore after the last chrome update.

Jon Håvard Sevaldsen 2023-09-30

This extension is simply invaluable. I have set it up as a shortcut on Alt+W which I use all the time out of muscle memory.

Jon Håvard Sevaldsen 2023-09-30

This extension is simply invaluable. I have set it up as a shortcut on Alt+W which I use all the time out of muscle memory.

Ozu 2023-06-19

хорошее дополнение... но на темной теме совершенно его не видно и это очень неудобно... хотело бы вариант хотя бы сегорого цвета или в идеале чтобы можно было выбирать в настройках! Спасибо... пока что 4 звезды из-за того что значка совершенно невидно во мнногих случаях. good addition... But on the dark theme it is not visible at all and it's very inconvenient... would like an option of at least a gray color or ideally to be able to choose in the settings! Thanks... so far 4 stars because the icon is completely invisible in many cases.

Andrés Access 2022-04-05

In Opera, at startup tabs just keep trying to load with CPU at max

Andrés Access 2022-04-05

In Opera, at startup tabs just keep trying to load with CPU at max

A A 2021-10-18

doesn't work

A A 2021-10-18

doesn't work

Несусвет 2021-04-22

Мгновенно выгружает вкладки. Не загружает фоновые вкладки при старте браузера. Open source 👍🏻 Минусы: - Никак не помечает убитую вкладку, так что невозможно понять какие вкладки выгружены. - Выгружает все вкладки (кроме текущей и закреплённых), а возможность выбрать только одну какую-то конкретную вкладку не реализована.

Keith Taylor 2020-07-06

It just works! Chrome is now much more responsive.

Keith Taylor 2020-07-06

It just works! Chrome is now much more responsive.

Dasha 2020-07-03

Nice onу, really helpful for my Macbook as saves memory that Chrome usually takes a whole lot!

Dasha 2020-07-03

Nice onу, really helpful for my Macbook as saves memory that Chrome usually takes a whole lot!

Sergei Gryzin 2020-04-12

Pls add white list for sites (eg youtube, etc)

Sergei Gryzin 2020-04-12

Pls add white list for sites (eg youtube, etc)

Wiktor Weber 2020-02-09

Однозначно лучшее расширение в своем классе. Не хватает только работы с режимом инкогнито (only thing missing is working in incognito mode)

ShuiXian Ye 2020-02-09

god

ShuiXian Ye 2020-02-09

god

Nomentsoa Andrian. 2020-01-13

Can't live without this

Nomentsoa Andrian. 2020-01-13

Can't live without this

Nicole Sung 2019-12-16

This extension is a life-saver. Whenever I have multiple tabs running and everything starts to lag, my potato computer comes back to life once I click this extension.

Nicole Sung 2019-12-16

This extension is a life-saver. Whenever I have multiple tabs running and everything starts to lag, my potato computer comes back to life once I click this extension.

GIVdB 2019-06-10

Hey bro you just aliviated me years of headache! Thanks!

GIVdB 2019-06-10

Hey bro you just aliviated me years of headache! Thanks!

Dima Sss 2018-12-13

Это что было нужно хрому и мне, при старте не дает грузить все вкладки, по нажатию выгружает остальные, спасибо чувак ты нас всех спас. Остается вопрос со стабильностью но есть сессионбудди если что он все сессии помнит так что нет проблем. Добавить бы настроек, например белый список, кнопку в меню, но это так придирки.Почему я раньше не знал о нем? чувак сделай пару статей о своем расширении на хабре и других ресурсах, пусть люди узнают многим такое нужно. Спасибо.

Robert Orzanna 2018-12-09

Eine tolle Erweiterung. Habe sie mal bei mir im Blog genauer beleuchtet: http://orschi.ro/nicht-alle-tabs-beim-start-von-chrome-laden/

Walter Wiseman 2018-11-08

It does not work in Chrome Version 70.0.3538.77 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit). Neither on startup with 32 Tabs, nor does the icon show any response or effect when clicking on it. Still every Tab gets loaded on starting chrome and it takes still the same long time to finally be able to use Chrome. This is what I wanted to prevent and thought this extension would be for. Unfortunaly I can´t say anything about it´s functionality since it doesn´t do anything, nor does it allow me to click on "Settings" in the context-menu. The only thing it seems to do is gathering my browser-history (since it is a dependency to add this extension to chrome). Since I read about this extension on popular computer-magazines´ websites I don´t assume this extension is just a scam, but it almost seems like this so far. I mean it probably collects my browser-history, but doesn´t do anything other at all.

Walter Wiseman 2018-11-08

It does not work in Chrome Version 70.0.3538.77 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit). Neither on startup with 32 Tabs, nor does the icon show any response or effect when clicking on it. Still every Tab gets loaded on starting chrome and it takes still the same long time to finally be able to use Chrome. This is what I wanted to prevent and thought this extension would be for. Unfortunaly I can´t say anything about it´s functionality since it doesn´t do anything, nor does it allow me to click on "Settings" in the context-menu. The only thing it seems to do is gathering my browser-history (since it is a dependency to add this extension to chrome). Since I read about this extension on popular computer-magazines´ websites I don´t assume this extension is just a scam, but it almost seems like this so far. I mean it probably collects my browser-history, but doesn´t do anything other at all.

Eric Leung 2018-10-11

I'm not sure whether to classify this as a bug or a feature request but one HUGE limitation of this extension is that tabs that have not yet loaded a title are saved as blank pages. This means that if you open more than say 5 pages at once, you would have to wait for each page to slowly load one by one before they can be unloaded from ram -or even going one page at a time, you still have to wait for each page to load its title before it can then be discarded, which imo is a needless user interaction. It would be vastly preferable if lazytabs could remember the web addresses of tabs 'in loading queue', or possibly if the unloading mechanism could wait until a title is loaded before unloading each tab. This second option would also help with the use of another extension, tabs outliner, which currently displays no name and not even a web address for tabs that haven't loaded a title. I suppose I could just use tabs outliner for all this, except then I would have to reload the main page and hope that the browser remembers where I'd scrolled to, just to unload pages that I would like to read later. Please consider it, thanks!

Eric Leung 2018-10-11

I'm not sure whether to classify this as a bug or a feature request but one HUGE limitation of this extension is that tabs that have not yet loaded a title are saved as blank pages. This means that if you open more than say 5 pages at once, you would have to wait for each page to slowly load one by one before they can be unloaded from ram -or even going one page at a time, you still have to wait for each page to load its title before it can then be discarded, which imo is a needless user interaction. It would be vastly preferable if lazytabs could remember the web addresses of tabs 'in loading queue', or possibly if the unloading mechanism could wait until a title is loaded before unloading each tab. This second option would also help with the use of another extension, tabs outliner, which currently displays no name and not even a web address for tabs that haven't loaded a title. I suppose I could just use tabs outliner for all this, except then I would have to reload the main page and hope that the browser remembers where I'd scrolled to, just to unload pages that I would like to read later. Please consider it, thanks!

Rai Ng 2018-09-22

I thought it would just make my pages hibernate but it just closed all my tabs, and now I can't get them back, what the hell?

Rai Ng 2018-09-22

I thought it would just make my pages hibernate but it just closed all my tabs, and now I can't get them back, what the hell?

Jerzy Głowacki 2018-09-14

Faktycznie zmniejsza zużycie pamięci RAM przez wyładowanie nieaktywnych kart po kliknięciu na ikonę.

Dixie Normous 2018-08-24

awesomesauce! Thanks. IMO this feature (or lack thereof) should be considered a bug in chrome that it DOESN'T already do this by itself

Dixie Normous 2018-08-24

awesomesauce! Thanks. IMO this feature (or lack thereof) should be considered a bug in chrome that it DOESN'T already do this by itself

Alex Viñoly 2018-08-19

Se acelero mi pc 100%, el cual no tiene un procesador muy potente. Gracias!

Rafael Viveros 2018-07-16

Funciona de maravilla

Anonymous 2018-05-17

Funciona perfectamente, muy recomendada :D

Hyunho Cho 2018-05-15

work well

Statistics

Installs
6,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
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Rating
3.67 (147 votes)
Last update
2025-04-25
Version 1.1.0
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