The Great Discarder Alternatives

The Great Discarder is described as 'Automatically discards unused tabs to free up system resources. Suspend tabs to reduce chrome memory usage. Uses chrome's native tab discarding' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to The Great Discarder for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Mac, Google Chrome and Linux apps. The best The Great Discarder alternative is Firemin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Great Discarder are Auto Tab Discard, UnloadTab, Tiny Suspender and Total Suspender.

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  1. Firemin icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
    • Firemin is the most popular Windows alternative to The Great Discarder.

    • Firemin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to The Great Discarder.

    • Firemin is Free and Open SourceThe Great Discarder is also Free and Open Source
    • Firemin is LightweightThe Great Discarder is not according to our users
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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.

    8 Auto Tab Discard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
    • Auto Tab Discard is the most popular Web-based alternative to The Great Discarder.

    • Auto Tab Discard is Free and Open SourceThe Great Discarder is also Free and Open Source
  3. UnloadTab icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
    • UnloadTab is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to The Great Discarder.

    • UnloadTab is Free and Open SourceThe Great Discarder is also Free and Open Source
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    Unload / suspend / hibernate idle tabs to reduce memory and cpu usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
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    Firefox extension to suspend tab processes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
  6. FooTab icon
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    This Chrome/Iron extension is inspired by the excellent Firefox extension - BarTab, although it's much less sophisticated and powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
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