Tab Hibernation

Sends your inactive tabs to sleep

What is Tab Hibernation?

Tab Hibernation is a Chrome extension that enhances your computer's performance by hibernating inactive tabs. It saves memory and CPU power, and allows you to restore tabs with a simple mouse click. The open-source extension offers additional features like automatic disabling for tabs with active audio, fast hibernation, URL-whitelist-support, locale-support, and provisions for contributing and translations.

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 3.50 (16)

Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2018-04-21)

Creation date: 2018-04-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
contextMenus
storage

Size: 39.48K

Email: ho*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 24712 ▼ 55

Other rankings

#1902 in Accessibility ▲ 7 #192 in restore tabs keyword 15 ▼ 21

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Summary

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Tab Hibernation frees some memory and CPU on your computer by putting inactive tabs to sleep. Your tabs won't get lost and you can restore them with a single mouse click.

This extension is open-source, you can contribute at https://github.com/343max/TabHibernation/ If you speak english or german and a language that we don't support yet, please help with translation!

v1.0:

option to disable hibernation for tabs with active audio
Screenshots (when hibernating visible tabs)

v0.2.1:

fix page restoration if history was cleared (for example after chrome crashed)
use standard API instead of WebKit-specific KeyEvent for push-button-wakeup
make only the wakeup-button clickable

v0.2.0:

User reviews

User reviews summary

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Works like a charm
Convenient moon icon for hibernated tabs
Good for managing a large number of tabs

Cons

Does not work in Vivaldi browser
Issues with the latest version of Chrome
Some users reported it as a virus

Most mentioned

Works like a charm
Virus
Convenient moon icon for hibernated tabs

Recent reviews

Gleb Dovgal, 2024-02-18

Not work for the latest version

Hiki, 2021-07-27

Doesn't work. Clicking the extension button brings no menu, and makes nothing on my tabs. Or to be more precise, it makes briefly the tabs icons "jump" (as a sign it tries to make an action) and does nothing more. I need to go in the extension options page (not convenient at all!) to edit a whitelist. But it's only a whitelist, not a timer, or a way to make the extension working.

P N, 2020-09-03

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Safety

Risk impact

Tab Hibernation may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.