Auto Tab Discard (suspend)

Name: Auto Tab Discard (suspend)
Rating: 4.5 (39 reviews)
Author: Bermet

Increase browser speed and reduce memory load when you have numerous open tabs.

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Auto Tab Discard is a powerful yet lightweight Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by automatically discarding inactive or idle tabs. This helps increase browser speed and significantly reduces memory load, which is particularly useful when managing numerous open tabs. Ideal for users on portable devices, it conserves battery life by disabling JavaScript and DOM events in discarded tabs.

The extension offers flexible options to manage tab discarding, such as excluding certain hostnames, preserving tab state upon browser restart, and indicating discarded tabs via favicon or title changes. Additionally, it restores scroll position and content inputs when tabs are reactivated. Users can configure discarding based on criteria like pinned tabs, media playing, power source presence, and unsaved inputs. Auto Tab Discard also supports useful plugins to release discarded tabs selectively, auto-discard new tabs, save YouTube timestamps, and clean up old discarded tabs.

Unlike similar tools, it utilizes the browser's native discarding method, ensuring that tabs are restored even if the extension is removed or the browser crashes. Overall, Auto Tab Discard helps maintain a smoother, faster, and more efficient browsing environment.

Add-on Productivity Utilities Privacy & Security

By:

Bermet

Users:

31,832 -383

Rating:

4.50

(39)

Version:

0.6.8.2 Last updated: 2024-02-18

Creation date:

2022-01-04

Risk:

Permissions:

idle
storage
contextMenus
notifications
alarms
scripting

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size:

152.68KB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-11

Ranking

# 900 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#2 in reduce keyword 18

#11 in release keyword 43 ▲ 2

#12 in instruction keyword 4 ▼ 1

#15 in auto keyword 67

#18 in performance keyword 16 ▼ 2

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User reviews

Pros

Works as promised
Excellent suite of options for customization
Useful for managing many open tabs

Cons

Inconsistent performance
Automatic discard of tabs may not always work as expected
Lack of ability to close tabs automatically

Recent reviews

Update: 11/03/24 "Discard Other Tabs in this Window" is poor and very rarely works. Instead I have to switch window and use "Discard Tabs in Other Windows" or "Discard All Other Tabs". Even then the extension is hit and miss. Needs lots of improvement for consistency. ----->>------------OLD Review ---->>------------>>-------------------->>------------------>> Excellent tab suspender. However please add the ability to only retain a certain number of active tabs without the condition of time. And also a manual tab unsuspending page, where the user is required to click on the page of an inactive tab to unsuspend rather than just opening the tab. A similar implementation to the workona extension.

by Al*****, 2024-03-11

"suspend" by Error Message from Edge.!!!

by Al*****, 2024-03-05

El mejor, lo uso en todos los navegadores desde que tengo conocimiento de su existencia, precisamente para sustituir y escapar de the great suspender.

by *****, 2024-02-09

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Auto Tab Discard (suspend) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Auto Tab Discard (suspend) has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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