The Great Suspender Alternatives for Firefox

The Great Suspender is not available for Firefox but there are some alternatives with similar functionality. The best Firefox alternative is Auto Tab Discard, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to The Great Suspender and eight of them are available for Firefox so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Firefox alternatives to The Great Suspender are Workona, Tab Wrangler, UnloadTab and Dustman.

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The Great Suspender

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The Great Suspender is a lightweight chrome extension to help reduce chrome's memory footprint for users that like to...

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Auto Tab Discard
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Free • Open Source
Online
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Opera
Firefox
6 Auto Tab Discard alternatives
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.
- - Auto Tab Discard is the most popular Web-based alternative to The Great Suspender.
- - Auto Tab Discard is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to The Great Suspender.
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Auto Tab Discard Features
Low memory usage
Memory usage
Memory footprint
Opera extension
Memory Optimization
Microsoft Edge extension
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Almost everyone thinks Auto Tab Discard is a great The Great Suspender alternative.
Workona
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Freemium • Proprietary
Tab Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Android
iPhone
iPad
Microsoft Edge
Vivaldi Browser
Google Chrome
Brave
Chromium
Firefox
35 Workona alternatives
The missing desktop for the cloud.
- - Workona is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to The Great Suspender.
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Workona Features
Group tabs
Memory usage
Browser integration
Browser extension
Tab Wrangler
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Free • Open Source
Tab Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
Firefox
8 Tab Wrangler alternatives
Tab Wrangler is a Google Chrome extension to close unused tabs at a user defined time.
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Tab Wrangler Features
Unload inactive tabs
UnloadTab
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
7 UnloadTab alternatives
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.
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UnloadTab Features
Memory usage
Memory Optimization
Discontinued
The last update was on February 11th, 2014.
Dustman
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
7 Dustman alternatives
If you tend to open too many tabs, closing them when no longer needed could be a tedious task. Fortunately you don't have to do it yourself.
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Dustman Features
Tabbed browsing
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crogonint
This one automagically closes tabs you haven't viewed recently. That means that you're depending on Chrome's notoriously rotten History function to get back old tabs.

BAD idea.
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Total Suspender
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
11 Total Suspender alternatives
Firefox extension to suspend tab processes.
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Total Suspender Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsTotal Suspender can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Browser extension
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Dormancy
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
6 Dormancy alternatives
Dormancy 'retires' tabs that have gone unused for a while, freeing up that memory. It then restores the tabs to life when accessed.
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Dormancy Features
Memory Optimization
Discontinued
The last update was on June 17th, 2012.
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AutoClose Tabs
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
6 AutoClose Tabs alternatives
AutoClose Tabs will automatically close tabs that have not been used for a long time.
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crogonint
This one also will automatically close your tabs, forcing you to rely on Chrome's crappy History function to retrieve them.
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