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The Great Suspender

Make your computer run smoothly by suspending the tabs you aren't using. Created by deanoemcke

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The Great Suspender is a lightweight chrome extension to help reduce chrome's memory footprint for users that like to have too many tabs open at the same time. This extension will automagically unload each tab while retaining its favicon and title text. A tab can be restored by clicking anywhere on the page when it is needed. This reduces the number of dom elements on the page and ensures no memory leaks or excessive javascripts are running. It also offers the functionality to automatically suspend tabs after a user-defined period of time similar to the extension tabmemfree. There is also a whitelist so that this auto-suspend functionality can be disabled for certain tabs.
It is now compatible with Session Buddy so that suspended tabs can be restored just like loaded tabs. It will also retain suspended tabs after a restart like the BarTab extension for Firefox, meaning that you don't have to wait for all of your tabs to reload when you restart chrome.... More Info »

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ALL Chrome web extensions (applicable to Opera, Vivaldi, YandexBrowser too), Extensions for TAB Management, MEMory Control, and Tabs Management

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OS & Utilities Web Browsers

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chrome-extension memory-optimization unload-tabs

The Great Suspender (sometimes referred to as Great Suspender) was added by piotrex in Feb 2013 and the latest update was made in Nov 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on The Great Suspender in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on The Great Suspender or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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