Simple Discard Tab

Name: Simple Discard Tab
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: em_te

Discards tabs that are inactive for 3 minutes to free up memory, while still preserving the tabs state when you click on them again.

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This extension will discard tabs that you have not opened in the past 3 minutes or more (configurable). Only unfocused tabs will be discarded. Tabs which are pinned or are playing music will also not be discarded.

When you focus/click on a tab, the tab's contents will load up again.

If you hover over the toolbar icon, the tooltip will tell you how many tabs were discarded in the last pass. For example, it will show "(4/9)" to mean 4 tabs were discarded out of a total of 9 running tabs. Tabs which are already discarded are not included in the count.

Instead of waiting for a tab to be discarded after a timeout, you can also right click on a link and open the link in a discarded tab.

This extension requires no special permissions to run, so use it in confidence.

If you enable the "read browser history" permission, you can enable a whitelist to choose which website domains should never be discarded.

Add-on

By:

em_te

Users:

212 22

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

0.3.5 Last updated: 2021-05-11

Creation date:

2021-05-11

Risk:

Permissions:

alarms
contextMenus
notifications
storage

Size:

18.49KB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-09

Ranking

# 9,434 ▲ 454

Other rankings

#79 in simple keyword 45 ▼ 4

#129 in state keyword 21

#131 in memory keyword 15 ▼ 5

#170 in permission keyword 11 ▼ 3

#173 in minute keyword 10 ▼ 3

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User reviews

Easy to use.

by *****, 2021-04-27

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Simple Discard Tab requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.

Risk likelihood

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Simple Discard Tab is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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