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 have too many tabs open at the same time. This extension will automagically unload each tab while retaining its favicon and title text.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Australia
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
Warning
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
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Recent News
- IanDorfman published news article about The Great Suspender
The Great Suspender Google Chrome extension now contains malicious code, uninstall ASAPThe Great Suspender, a memory management extension for Google Chrome designed to help users that ke...
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The Great Suspender information
Developed by
deanoemcke Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 2Alternatives
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Web BrowsersGitHub repository
- 5,059 Stars
- 918 Forks
- 395 Open Issues
- Updated Aug 11, 2023
Comments and Reviews
Needs to also be on firefox, this program is awesome
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.
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.