The Great Suspender
Make your computer run smoothly by suspending the tabs you aren't using.
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Google Chrome
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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.
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.
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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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- vilvaldi-extension
- unload-tabs
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Edge/Chrome Extensions • ALL Chrome web extensions (applicable to Opera, Vivaldi, YandexBrowser too) • Extensions for TAB Management, MEMory Control • Tabs Management
The Great Suspender
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about The Great Suspender, and it has gotten 62 likes
- Developed by deanoemcke
- Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Average rating of 2
- 15 alternatives listed
GitHub repository
- 4,931 Stars
- 886 Forks
- 382 Open Issues
- Updated May 14, 2022
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The Great Suspender was added to AlternativeTo by piotrex on Feb 8, 2013 and this page was last updated Feb 5, 2021. The Great Suspender is sometimes referred to as Great Suspender.
Recent user activities on The Great Suspender
- meatzombie liked The Great Suspender11 months ago
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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.
Pending approval • Edited over 1 year ago