Tab Suspender

Tab Suspender

Automatically suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory, reduce load on your device, battery and heat.

What is Tab Suspender?
Tab Suspender is a resource-efficient Chrome extension designed for suspending, parking, and hibernating inactive tabs. This effective management utility helps free up to 80% memory, reduces device load, conserves battery, and minimizes heat generation. It auto-restores tabs when made visible again, supports auto-close for unused tabs, and offers a variety of user-friendly settings for a tailored browsing experience.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 200,000+
Version: 1.4.12 (Last updated: 2024-01-09)
Creation date: 2020-05-16
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • notifications
  • <all_urls>
  • unlimitedStorage
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size: 2.36M
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Tab Suspender
Tab Suspender (v1.4.1)
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If you like to use many open Tabs at once - this extension will help you and automatically accelerate your browser and purge the memory.

Extension suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory.

Unloading tabs will free memory and reduce load on the device, saving battery and less heat.

This extension catches inactive, idle or forgotten tabs and suspend / park them with the freeing 80% memory, device resources and battery life.

When tab became a visible again, it can be automatically restored to initial.

Also you can enable auto-close tabs function, which close unused tabs and holds count of tabs at the selected level.

IF TAB SUSPENDER HAS STOPPED WORKING: -> Please try to reset Tab Suspender Settings: "Tab Suspender Menu -> All Settings -> Reset Settings".

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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Saves CPU/memory power
  • Creates screenshots of suspended websites
Cons
  • Lost settings after update
  • Doesn't work with some websites (e.g. Workona, PWA tabs)
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work with some websites (e.g. Workona, PWA tabs)
  • Lost settings after update
  • Extension not working
  • Difficult to manually restore suspended tabs
Recent reviews
It's one of the best Suspender. Just the command names are not clear: One has to read all Tab Suspender command names and compare them to understand the difference / what each command is doing.
by Gaming Tom Gaming Tom, 2024-04-20

Works for me. If you have a problem, go to Extensions and hit reset ... then reload your tabs.
by Jim Bell Jim Bell, 2024-04-14

Doesn't work with Workona. After restore the page, displays "Page laameccjpleogmfhilmffpdbiibgbekf is blocked. This page was blocked by Chrome - ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT".
by Michal X Michal X, 2024-04-12
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Safety
Risk impact

Tab Suspender is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Tab Suspender if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Tab Suspender has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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