Lazy Tabs

Discard all inactive tabs (except pinned) at startup or by clicking an icon

Lazy Tabs is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to optimize your browsing performance by automatically discarding all inactive tabs (except pinned ones) either at startup or upon clicking an icon. This proactive tab management significantly reduces memory consumption and prevents unnecessary bandwidth usage, ensuring a faster and smoother browsing experience.

Privacy-conscious users will appreciate that Lazy Tabs operates without tracking and does not require any special permissions. The extension is open-source with its code available at GitHub, allowing transparency and community collaboration.

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By:: Jman
Users:: 6,000+
Rating:: 3.63
(139)
Version:: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2024-04-02)
Creation date:: 2020-07-02
Risk:: Very low risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Size:: 11.18K
Email:: jm*****@gmail.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 11,363 ▲ 981

Other rankings

#1064 in Accessibility

User reviews

Pros

Significantly reduces RAM usage when managing multiple tabs
Easy to use with a simple click to unload tabs
Improves overall Chrome performance, especially on lower-end machines
Open source and generally well-received
Quickly unloads non-active tabs without loading them on startup

Cons

Does not work with tab groups
Has visibility issues on dark themes
Does not restore tabs after unloading them
Inconsistent functionality across different versions of Chrome
Missing features such as whitelisting certain sites and support for incognito mode

Recent reviews

does not work with tab groups

Marco Ciarambino, 2025-03-06

Doesn't work for tab groups. Not tested with other types of startups.

Andrey Kubantsev, 2024-04-01

It seems it does not work anymore after the last chrome update.

Uffa Chebarba (Evolution Inside), 2023-11-06

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Lazy Tabs does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Low This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.

Risk likelihood

Lazy Tabs has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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