Chrome-Stats extension
Sloth
Automatically discards all tabs at startup, before they load, reducing memory footprint and unnecessary bandwidth usage.
Total ratings for Sloth
4.33
(Rating count:
24)
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Pros
- Reduces memory and CPU usage
- Tabs remain unloaded until switched to
- Stops all tabs from loading at once
- Works as described
Cons
- Doesn't handle large number of idle tabs (500+) effectively
- "New tab" function seems to have delay
- Doesn't load all bookmarks from a folder, all tabs start loading at once
- Issues with keeping pinned tab URLs in memory
Most mentioned
- Efficient memory and CPU usage
- issues with new tab function
- loading of all bookmarks from folder simultaneously
- note on handling large number of tabs
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Recent reviews for Sloth
Recent rating average:
3.70
All time rating average:
4.33
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2023-09-29 |  |
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I have 7 windows with more than 600 tabs opened total. The whole point of adding this extensions is to have a quick restart of the browser, and to have one with low memory usage as only the active tabs of those windows would be loaded. When looking at the task manager it seems this extension opens a gorillion of new tab pages in the background, each with their google.com subframe, even when told not to in options. Those are loaded instead of the pages I have opened, but this makes the browser slower to start up and those use 600MB memory which is more than the pages loaded from the background used. Completely the opposite of what one wants, and it's clear this wasn't tested with more than 500 idle tabs opened, which would be a reason to want an extension like this. | |
| 2022-04-27 |  |
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Simply perfect. | |
| 2022-04-27 |  |
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en | Simply perfect. |
| 2019-12-13 | Ashish Bisht |
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working awesome ! | |
| 2019-03-03 | A Google user |
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Funciona perfecto | |
| 2019-03-03 |  |
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es | Funciona perfecto |
| 2019-02-04 |  |
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Finally, something that stops all of my tabs loading at the same time. However, your "new tab" option doesn't work - opening Chromium loads the last tab, waits a moment, THEN opens a new tab. | |
| 2018-12-07 |  |
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Open all bookmarks in a folder doesn't seem to work... all tabs start loading at the same time | |
| 2018-12-07 |  |
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en | Open all bookmarks in a folder doesn't seem to work... all tabs start loading at the same time |
| 2018-11-17 | lori f |
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Does what it says; simply works. |
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