The Great-er Tab Discarder

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Compatible with latest Chrome! Helps your browser load and run faster by freeing up memory and resources used by old inactive tabs.

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Description from store Welcome to all users coming from "The Marvellous Suspender", "The Great Suspender (notrack)", "Tab Suspender" or other similar extensions! This extension can migrate your suspended tabs! Do not uninstall your existing extension(s) until you migrate to this one, or else Chrome will delete all your suspended tabs. Let Chrome run faster by freeing up resources used by old open tabs. "Suspending" tabs is the old-school way of reclaiming memory in Chrome. Switch to Discarding tabs, which is the preferred Chrome-native way of running faster and more efficient. New Features Migrate Tabs Migrate suspended tabs from several other extensions. Discard all tabs at startup Prevents Chrome from loading all your tabs at startup, while preserving the tabs in your last session. Discard eligible tabs Same as "Discard other tabs" but observes the current auto-discard settings, like skipping Pinned and Audio tabs. Link to Chrome Discards page Adds a link on the context and popup menus to launch the built-in chrome://discards/ page. What does "Discarding" a tab mean? Discarding a tab does NOT close or remove or delete the tab. Discarding simply frees up memory. It's a feature of Chrome, and the preferred way to keep your browser running fast and efficient. What about "Suspending" tabs? Tab suspending is the old-school approach at saving memory. Problem is, Chrome still assigns resources to the suspended mini-pages. Chrome added tab discarding for a reason, as it's able to natively free up memory. Please post all bug reports here: https://github.com/rkodey/the-great-er-discarder-er/issues (This is a fork of the abandoned project deanoemcke/thegreatdiscarder.)

Latest reviews

(2023-10-24) Jason Walls: This is the way my dudes. Trust me. Been using this extension since it was just a github fork of the original Great Discarder with the life-changing "discard all tabs on startup" option added. Beyond stoked to see it now on the chrome web store. Just download it already!
(2023-09-03) Snow: Makes Chrome usable.
(2023-08-02) Anno Niem: The key feature I wanted "Discard all tabs at startup" is not working for me. I'm on Vivaldi 6.1, started looking for an alternative to "Tab Suspender" as it made 6.1 crash. Sadly this one isn't it, too bad I like the simplicity of it.
(2022-02-10) Arpad Orfi: It works. However, there are two other extensions with more features, or/and a different working mechanic what makes it possible to show a screenshot of the suspended tab without loading it (and waiting for it) again.
(2021-11-20) 詹明鋒: 設置頁雖然是英文但可右鍵翻譯。推薦短時間開啟大量網頁用戶，設定自動丟棄標籤時間為20秒，勾選啟動時丟棄所有選項卡，然後記得右下保存。我在安裝後設置完，開啟六十多個網頁，完全不卡，而且標籤什麼的都沒有丟失，如果有使用分頁轉清單之類的擴充功能(例如OneTab)，更應該試試 ! !
(2021-11-13) Zainullah Khan (Zainullahk): great on my lenovo duet its really lowend this helps a lot
(2021-11-06) William Ribeiro: Great tab discarding manager
(2021-07-19) Philippe Léger: Thanks for stepping in and creating the fork!
(2021-03-25) Pedro Duarte: Really great extension! The reloads feel faster. Yeah, we don't have a clear indication that the tab was in fact suspend, but maybe we don't need it at all. Great so far!
(2021-03-12) Vitalie Burcovschi: My browser just got much lighter! Thank you, really needed extension.
(2021-02-21) killua99: This is the greater extension after discard the suspender, UI wise is hard to know when you have a tabs unloaded, but well you get use to that quickly the important key of this extension is to keep chrome a bit less hungry and consume less RAM
(2021-02-20) Michel Cadorette: One of the most useful extension to save memory !

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