The Great Suspender
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.
The Great Suspender has been removed from the Google Chrome Web Store due to being malware since November 2020. https://lifehacker.com/ditch-the-great-suspender-before-it-becomes-a-security-1845989664
Features
- Ad-free
- Resource management
- Session Management
- Memory Optimization
- Unload inactive tabs
- Tab Manager
- Safari extension
Tags
- Memory usage
- Google Chrome Extension
- unload-tabs
- vilvaldi-extension
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Recent News
- IanDorfman published news article about The Great Suspender
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What is The Great Suspender?
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.
The Great Suspender information
Developed by
deanoemcke Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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- 943 Forks
- 394 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
Needs to also be on firefox, this program is awesome
A very poor choice by a good developer to sell this extension to a hacking group in 2020. Their efforts to use it to exfiltrate user keystrokes and credentials were detected by Google, resulting in a permanent ban and a net loss for all involved. Capitalism is the worst.
The developer's actions were wrong, not sure what this has to do with capitalism though. It is up to individuals and society to ensure ethical business practices.
In June 2020, The Great Suspender was sold by it's original author/owner/maintainer to an unnamed third party, who has since added malware to it.
If you download the extension from it's github repository, using the last release before the sale, consider it a 5-star app. Possibly 4-star, but only because you want get any more updates from it.
If you have the latest version from the google chrome store, consider it a zero-star app.