Universal Tab Suspender

Suspend tabs you are not using to save memory usage and make your computer run faster. Reduce the load on your device, and battery.

What is Universal Tab Suspender?

Universal Suspender is a lightweight Chrome extension that automatically suspends unused tabs to reduce memory footprint and improve performance. It allows tabs to be unloaded after a configurable period or manually, and whitelists certain tabs to avoid suspension. Suspended tabs are retained even after closing and reopening the browser.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-11-20

By: remoce.remo

Users: 607

Rating: 3.82 (11)

Version: 1.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-10-08)

Creation date: 2017-07-01

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
tabs
favicon
scripting
contextMenus
system.memory

Host permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 1.33M

Email: re*****@gmail.com

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Extension summary

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Unload, park, suspend tabs to reduce memory footprint of chrome. Tabs can auto-suspend after a configurable period of time or be suspended manually. Tabs can be whitelisted to avoid automatic suspension. Suspended tabs are retained after closing and reopening browser, preventing many tabs from all reloading after a restart. Very simple, intuitive interface.

Universal 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.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Effectively suspends tabs, including local PDF viewers
Customizable settings
Works as intended for basic suspension tasks

Cons

Can cause Chrome to become unresponsive or crash
Deletes tabs without allowing recovery
Issues with add-on icon not appearing in the Chrome menu
Incorrectly suspends or fails to manage a large number of tabs

Most mentioned

Unresponsive browser after using extension
Icon does not appear in the Chrome menu
Loss of open tabs after using the extension

Recent reviews

So good! I have try many of the tab suspender and this is the only one that sucessfully suspend the page of the local pdf viewer.

Jie Qiao, 2024-10-24

şuana kadar kullandığım en başarılı uygulama geliştiricilere teşekkür ediyorum

mehmet baloncu, 2024-10-11

This extension deleted almost 4000 tabs from my browsing session and I have no way of recovering them! I had just under 4000 thousand tabs open in about 50 Chrome windows. Yes, I know it's excessive, but that is why I came looking for an extension like this in the first place, as an alternative to manually loading up the chrome discards flag which takes a couple of minutes to load all my tab data. Mind you, my browser worked fine and I just wanted to suspend/unload some exchange pages as they continue to put about 15% CPU load in the background when idle/AFK (wasting power). Soon as I added this extension, my browser was unresponsive for about 30 minutes, and when it finally worked again, all my tabs were gone except for one tab from each window. This extension deleted almost 4000 tabs and I have no way of recovering them. After much tinkering, it loaded my 3900 closed tabs into a single window, but every tab I click on said something like "Can't locate file, file lost or deleted". So I guess it deleted my tabs without keeping the tab url data. My day, and possibly my week is ruined because I tried this extension. Wish I could rate it negative 5 stars instead of 1 star.