Sends your inactive tabs to sleep
Tab Hibernation: Optimize PC performance by putting inactive tabs to sleep
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.
Extension stats
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 39.48K
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Extension summary
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:
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Pros
- Works Like A Charm
- The best tab hibernation at this moment
- Moon icon makes it easier to find hibernated tabs
Cons
- Not working for the latest version
- Doesn't work in Vivaldi
- Extension stopped working after the last Chrome update
- Some users claim it's a virus
Most mentioned
- Not working at all
- Not work for the latest version
- Doesn't work in Vivaldi
- Works Like A Charm
- The best tab hibernation at this moment
User reviews
not working at all
Not work for the latest version
Extension safety
Risk impact
Tab Hibernation requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Tab Hibernation has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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