Disable automatic tab discarding
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Description from extension meta
Stops Chrome from suspending tabs, and reloading them when you switch to them.
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Description from store
This extension automatically tells Chrome that every tab you open is "not auto discardable". This might help solve issues where Chrome kills more tabs than you would want to, however, this is not foolproof, and tabs might still get discarded if your system is out of memory.
No configuration needed, the extension will mark every open tab as "not auto discardable" as long as you installed the extension and haven't disabled it.
Want to make sure this extension is working? Go to chrome://discards in a new tab and see how every row has a cross in the "auto discardable" column.
👨💻 Open source: https://github.com/WorldLanguages/DoNotDiscard
Latest reviews
- Ben
- Probably works I dont know yet just wanted to provide feedback. I just want the feature for one specific website. The others I dont care if they get default discard behavior. It would be nice to have an automatic setting for everything disabled then you can just toggle the ones you want.
- Hackiria Hacked
- Not working on youtube, facebook, instagram. Still keep refreshing after revisiting idle/unopen tabs (while working in other tabs). Extension was put in "No access needed". Windows 7 (Pro) (64-bit) Chrome Ver. 109.0.5414.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- Shiyo Koi
- Great
- 大畑乃之
- 時々、タブが自動的に解放されてるかの様な挙動を起こす時が有るが、一体何なんだろう。 2025/4/26追記: 全てのタブが勝手にリロードする様に成った。
- Brenda
- Has stopped working.
- Joel Etinoff
- Causing crashes on Opera GX when i open a new tab
- Gustavo Camargo
- Worked well for me at my MacBook Pro. Open chrome://discards/ in your searchbar in order to view the toggles.
- William Lee
- Im using opera gx and it doesnt open :(
- Tiramisu Espresso
- works well so far for me. Chrome stopped showing the awful checkmarks from hell on the discards page after I got this. discarding should NEVER be automatic, manual discarding only.
- mustafa demirbaş
- doesn't work
- mustafa demirbaş
- doesn't work
- Amay
- Works as expected. Although you can turn the flags off as well for discard feature. That should work too. But I would rather have the extension.
- Hong Phuc Nguyen
- Working perfectly, thank you for your finding, and it is still working now after 5 years.
- Craig Gerlach
- Looking for a method to stop Facebook from auto reloading and since high rating had hoped it would do just that. Facebook refreshes just as it did without the extension, so unsure if need to change something, it states above, we do not need to after we install, we forget and use... No joy here...
- Rob
- I use this on Brave, and it works really well, I couldn't use a Chromium based browser without it. To all those reviews saying "Doesn't even open up when I Click it!" or something similar - it's not supposed to. When it is on, it disables automatic tab discarding, exactly like the title says. It doesn't have any options or settings. It just works in the background.
- Jme Juniper (Jme)
- Used to use another extension, Don't Discard, until it stopped working. This extension does exactly what it says, disables auto-discarding tabs. Nothing more, nothing less, all very lightweight and very convenient. 10/10 (Btw, this works for most if not all chromium based browsers. Some popular ones include Microsoft Edge, Ungoogled Chromium, Opera (and Opera GX, the one I use this on), and Vivaldi)
- Aidan
- Doesn't even open up when I Click it!
- Aidan
- Doesn't even open up when I Click it!
- Val Spiridon
- Doesn't work at all!!!!
- Val Spiridon
- Doesn't work at all!!!!
- n ascentt
- Does what it claims to. Marks all tabs as non-auto discardable.
- n ascentt
- Does what it claims to. Marks all tabs as non-auto discardable.
- Kenia Lizbeth Antonio Lopez
- estaba bien pero ahora permite poner anuncios :(
- андрей николаев
- жаль не работает
- Loopy1444
- Doesn't work at all
- Loopy1444
- Doesn't work at all
- Carlos Sierra
- Super buena, funciona a la prefección.
- solomon Mintah
- good for saving tabs with videos on them for long car rides
- solomon Mintah
- good for saving tabs with videos on them for long car rides
- N/A
- Did not stop the browser from pausing streams when the tab was not in focus.
- N/A
- Did not stop the browser from pausing streams when the tab was not in focus.
- Zenkichi Zucced
- Does not even opens or do anything, I use opera gx btw.
- Zenkichi Zucced
- Does not even opens or do anything, I use opera gx btw.
- Blue Richmond
- good very good!!!
- Blue Richmond
- good very good!!!
- A Random User
- using it for a while now, and no issues at all. shout out to the dev team
- A Random User
- using it for a while now, and no issues at all. shout out to the dev team
- Joseph Duval
- It worked flawlessly until a few days ago, but now it's broken again.
- Joseph Duval
- It worked flawlessly until a few days ago, but now it's broken again.
- modernator
- Google Developers are bunch of dumbass. Every they do in their update is basically make user experience as uncomfortable as possible.
- modernator
- Google Developers are bunch of dumbass. Every they do in their update is basically make user experience as uncomfortable as possible.
- syouki siogami
- "インストールした時点で自動適応される"ことを記述したほうがいい。 It would be better to describe "auto-adaptive at the time of installation". あと設定の開き方も。 Also how to open the settings. 「chrome://discards」で変更が可能。
- Tradster
- Great.
- Brohski
- Great.
- Илья Лесной
- A wonderful plugin that allows you to achieve better performance and a better user experience from working with the browser
- Илья Лесной
- A wonderful plugin that allows you to achieve better performance and a better user experience from working with the browser
- Tiffany Jones
- I was just about to stop using Chrome as my default browser (again!) when I heard about this extension in a discussion thread about, How to Stop Chrome Tabs from Refreshing. Thanks a million! This works as intended and as described. Chrome is worthless without this extension.
- Tiffany Jones
- I was just about to stop using Chrome as my default browser (again!) when I heard about this extension in a discussion thread about, How to Stop Chrome Tabs from Refreshing. Thanks a million! This works as intended and as described. Chrome is worthless without this extension.
- Фламма Рос
- Не работает.
- Megan Nguyen
- Worked really well until around November-December 2022 but as of the start of 2023, it's working again for me!