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Auto Tab Discard

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Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Online
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera
  • Firefox
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  1.  Low memory usage
  2.  Memory footprint
  3.  Memory Optimization
  4.  Microsoft Edge extension
  5.  Opera extension

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Auto Tab Discard information

  • Developed by

    Richard Neomy
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    7 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Web BrowsersOS & Utilities

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  •  1,002 Stars
  •  80 Forks
  •  164 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 20, 2024 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Auto Tab Discard, and it has gotten 17 likes

Auto Tab Discard was added to AlternativeTo by shady1765 on Jun 1, 2018 and this page was last updated Aug 25, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
CeesT
Jul 24, 2022
0

From 95% RAM usage and choppy music to 38% and normal music playback, thanks to discarding inactive 100+ tabs.

Clemens_Ratte_Polle
Sep 8, 2022
0

One important feature is that everything is safe and nothing lost when deactivating Auto Tab Discard :) With other suspension extensions you will lose ALL your tabs when uninstalling them :(

"ATD uses the native method for discarding tabs. Even if you disable the extension or remove it from your browser, all your tabs are safe. https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html

What is Auto Tab Discard?

Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened.

If you like to use many open tabs at once, this extension could help you to keep your browser fresh with low memory usage by parking (hibernating) inactive tabs to save up to 80% of the used memory. This also helps portable devices to save battery.

Features:

  1. Speeds up your browser and minimize the memory usage: Inactive, idle or forgotten tabs can be auto-suspended after a configurable period of time or be suspended manually from the toolbar popup.
  2. Tabs (domains) can be whitelisted to avoid automatic suspension.
  3. Suspended tabs are retained after closing and reopening browser (using your browser's session restore functionality)
  4. Tab's favicon displays the suspension status (If the icon has opacity it is discarded)
  5. Tabs are being restored with all information kept intact (like scroll position or the content of text boxes) when it becomes visible again
  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. Pinned tabs
  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.

Notes:

  1. To prevent automatic tab discard, set the period to zero in the options page

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