Sleepy Tabs

Sleepy Tabs

This extension puts to sleep tabs that have not been viewed after a while.

What is Sleepy Tabs?
Sleepy Tabs is a Chrome extension that helps preserve memory by automatically putting inactive tabs to sleep after a set number of minutes. It can also exclude specific domains from being put to sleep, allowing notifications from web apps while still optimizing RAM consumption.
Stats
By: Yougli
Users: 234 ▼ -9
Rating: 3.00 (2)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2018-03-01)
Creation date: 2018-03-01
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • storage
  • tabs
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
Size: 7.51K
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Summary

This extension helps you preserve your precious memory:

  • sends inactive tabs to sleep automatically after a set number of minutes (can be changed through the options).
  • optionally keeps inactive tabs awake based on an exclude list of domains set in the options.
  • discarded tabs wake up and reload as soon as they're opened.

You can now keeps all your favorite tabs opened without worrying about RAM consumption, and still get to receive notifications from your preferred webapps thanks to the exclude list.

User reviews
No popup, you have to go in the extension settings page to change the timer, it's not convenient. And anyway, it doesn't seem to work at all.
by P N P N, 2020-09-03

Работает. Без глюков.
by Alx vSeti Alx vSeti, 2020-07-30
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Safety
Risk impact

Sleepy Tabs 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 Sleepy Tabs if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Sleepy Tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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