Tiny Suspender

Unload / suspend / hibernate idle tabs to reduce memory and cpu usage.

Tiny Suspender - Optimize Your Chrome Tabs

"Tiny Suspender" is a Chrome extension designed to automatically unload and hibernate idle tabs, reducing memory and CPU usage without user intervention. It features form detection to avoid suspending active submissions, audio detection to keep music-playing tabs active, and a whitelist to exclude specific tabs. With options for keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, and integration of Chrome's native tab discard feature, it helps optimize system performance efficiently. Feedback and support are easily accessible via GitHub.

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By: https://sainsmograf.com

Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.08

(106)

0.03

Version: 2.0.4 (Last updated: 2024-09-25)

Creation date: 2017-01-19

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
contextMenus
storage
alarms

Size: 40.04K

Email: ar*****@sainsmograf.com

URLs: Website

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# 6,041 ▲ 130

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#523 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 12

#21 in bug fixes keyword 21 ▲ 5

#38 in prevent keyword 67 ▲ 1

#44 in configure keyword 5 ▲ 4

#46 in permission keyword 36 ▲ 5

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Extension summary

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Unload idle tabs to free your precious memory and cpu resources!

Tiny Suspender will automatically suspend/hibernate background tabs for you, greatly reducing overall system resource usage without you having to take any action. You can set how long to wait before suspending idle tabs and configure a whitelist to exclude certain pages from automatic suspension.

Features:

Form Detection: Tiny Suspender will try to detect active forms to avoid automatically suspending page with unsubmitted data
Audio Detection (optional): prevent autosuspending tabs that play music in the background.
Snooze: Temporarily prevent autosuspension on a specific tab or domain
Whitelist: Excludes specifics domains, pages, tabs or pinned tabs.
Keyboard Shortcuts: Suspend tabs without moving your hand away from your keyboard.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Significantly reduces memory consumption of inactive tabs
User-friendly and easy to use
Does what it should without unnecessary features
Effective for tab hoarders and helps manage multiple tabs
Good compatibility across different browsers

Cons

Occasionally stops working or fails to respect settings
Whitelisting does not consistently prevent tabs from being suspended
Dark mode issues where it intermittently defaults to light mode
Right-click context menu options are missing for easier suspension
Inability to exclude certain tabs from being unloaded reliably

Most mentioned

Works well and as expected
Need for bug fixes and stability improvements
Desire for additional features, like one-click suspension
Issues with the whitelist functionality
Praise for its performance compared to other tab suspenders

User reviews

Когда отключаете расширение , сразу теряете все вкладки затронутые этим расширением (вкладки автоматически закрываются при отключении расширения). Поэтому это расширение не надёжно .

Александр Skif, 2024-12-20

-it was working OK, even on several accounts. But for the last 10 days or so when i click on it it's opening page options forever so i can't choose options, it still works automatics. It's the same on several machines, so it's not up to PC. AT least i think so. So what happened i have to idea. So i then switch into setting on chorme etc option remove the tiny suspender and reinstall it and it works for 1 day. And i'm in the loop of constant installing and reinstalling in order not to loose 1000+ tabs. IMPORTNAT! When you uninstall it read in settings and choose ''Native tab d'' or you will lost your tabs as i did in one window.

Luginon Luginon, 2024-12-20

works great! It significantly reduces the memory consumption of inactive tabs by replacing each with HTML page where you need to click anywhere on the page to reload, which is very different from simply sleeping tabs as the latter essentially only pauses JavaScript of inactive tabs, but not necessarily stops all background activities, which can be inspected through Task Manager if you're on Windows. Anyway, additionally, this could also have dark mode to reduce the dazzling from white screen :) (Edit: sorry for my oversight, I've just found "toggle dark mode" in the extension settings, so don't mind that)