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Suspend Tab

This addon suspends background tabs to save the memory. Created by Piro (piro_or)

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This addon suspends background tabs to save the memory.

Other similar addons overwrites tab state or close the original tab after duplication, so they can break other tab related addons like Tree Style Tab . This is started to be developed to solve such compatibility issues.

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Discontinued firefox-extension legacy-firefox-addon memory-optimization unload-tabs

Suspend Tab was added by piotrex in Feb 2013 and the latest update was made in Mar 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2017 There is a history of all activites on Suspend Tab in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Suspend Tab or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Suspend Tab is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The extension is no longer developed since 2016 and it is not compatible with Firefox Quantum.

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