Sloth
Automatically discards all tabs at startup, before they load, reducing memory footprint and unnecessary bandwidth usage.
Total ratings
4.36
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25)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Reduces memory usage by keeping tabs unloaded until accessed
- Helps manage a large number of tabs efficiently
- Works as described and fulfills its main promise
- Users report improvement in CPU and memory availability
- Positive user experiences noted with phrases like 'Simply perfect' and 'Works well'
Cons
- Causes browser slowdowns by opening numerous empty tabs in the background
- Issues with certain features like new tab functionality not working correctly
- Problems with loading bookmarks all at once, contrary to expectations
- May cause URLs of pinned tabs to be forgotten, leading to an empty state
- Lack of options for managing startup pages or special tabs
Most mentioned
- Works as described
- Issues with loading tabs
- High memory usage due to background tabs
- Great for managing many tabs
- Notable impact on CPU and memory availability
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-11 |  | | ||
| 2023-09-29 |  | | 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. | |
| 2023-09-29 |  | | en | 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 |  | | Simply perfect. | |
| 2022-04-27 |  | | en | Simply perfect. |
| 2019-12-13 | Ashish Bisht | | working awesome ! | |
| 2019-12-13 |  | | en | working awesome ! |
| 2019-03-03 | A Google user | | Funciona perfecto | |
| 2019-03-03 | | | es | Funciona perfecto |
| 2019-02-04 |  | | 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. |
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