FooTab Alternatives
FooTab is described as 'This Chrome/Iron extension is inspired by the excellent Firefox extension - BarTab, although it's much less sophisticated and powerful' and is an app in the web browsers category. There are five alternatives to FooTab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Firefox, Mac, Linux and Online / Web-based. The best alternative is Firemin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FooTab are UnloadTab, Tiny Suspender, Total Suspender and Dormancy.
- Firemin is a small utility to reduce the amount of memory Firefox or other browsers use. Although Firefox memory usage improved a little over the last few years, it still uses a lot of memory; a little more than we feel comfortable with.
- An essential add-on for power users that have many tabs open. Curb your resource usage by unloading tabs that you haven't visited for a while. An unloaded tab is restored back to its original state when you need it again.
Discontinued
The last update was on February 11th, 2014.
- Unload / suspend / hibernate idle tabs to reduce memory and cpu usage.
- Firefox extension to suspend tab processes.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Firefox
No screenshots yet - Dormancy 'retires' tabs that have gone unused for a while, freeing up that memory. It then restores the tabs to life when accessed.
Discontinued
The last update was on June 17th, 2012.
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