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The Great Discarder

Automatically discards unused tabs to free up system resources. Suspend tabs to reduce chrome memory usage. Uses chrome's native tab discarding. Created by deanoemcke

Free Open Source
Web
Chrome OS
Vivaldi Browser
Chrome

"The Great Discarder" is a clone of the authors other open source chrome extension "The Great Suspender". It was built to take advantage of Google's new 'tab discarding' functionality which is essentially a native implementation of tab suspension. This implementation is more robust and performant, both in the resources consumed by the extension, and the memory savings of the tab suspension. It is also compatible with chrome tab history syncing.

Advantages over The Great Suspender:
- More memory savings
- Compatible with chrome tab syncing
- Super lightweight extension that uses no content scripts or persistent background scripts More Info »

Disadvantages over The Great Suspender:
- No visibility on which tabs have been suspended
- Unable to prevent a tab from reloading when it gains focus

The Great Discarder is listed in

Chrome and Extensions for TAB Management, MEMory Control

Links to official The Great Discarder sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Google Chrome Extensions Configurable Memory usage User friendly Add a feature

Categories

OS & Utilities Web Browsers

Tags

browser-enhancement memory-booster memory-cleaner memory-optimization performance-optimization ram-booster unload-tabs

The Great Discarder was added by dinosw in Jul 2017 and the latest update was made in Sep 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2020. It's possible to update the information on The Great Discarder or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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