The Great-er Discarder-er

Helps Chrome run faster by freeing up memory and system resources being used by inactive tabs or old tabs

What is The Great-er Discarder-er?

The Great-er Discarder-er is a comprehensive Chrome extension designed to increase the speed and efficiency of your browser. It works by discarding unused or older tabs, freeing up valuable memory and system resources. It offers features like preventing tabs to load at startup and an easy link to access Chrome Discards page. Effectively, it allows Chrome to run faster while using less memory.

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By: github.com/rkodey

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Users: 4,000+ ▲ 1,000

Rating: 4.73 (15)

Version: 0.2.1 (Last updated: 2021-10-31)

Creation date: 2021-02-12

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
contextMenus
alarms

Size: 215.04K

Email: rk*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 14783 ▲ 1817

Other rankings

#23631 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 128 #82 in memory keyword 21 ▲ 28

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Summary

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New Features

Discard all tabs at startup Prevents Chrome from loading all your tabs at startup, while preserving the tabs in your last session.

Discard eligible tabs Same as "Discard other tabs" but observes the current auto-discard settings, like skipping Pinned and Audio tabs.

Link to Chrome Discards page Adds a link on the context and popup menus to launch the built-in chrome://discards/ page.

Discarding a tab does not close or remove or delete the tab. It's a feature of Chrome that simply frees up resources and memory that the tab is using. Discarding tabs should let Chrome run faster while consuming less memory.

Please post all bug reports here: https://github.com/rkodey/the-great-er-discarder-er/issues

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Makes Chrome usable
Great tab discarding manager
Helps save memory

Cons

Doesn't work with certain settings in Vivaldi
Lack of indication when tabs are unloaded
Not as feature-rich as other similar extensions

Most mentioned

Discard all tabs at startup
Great extension for saving memory
UI could be improved

Recent reviews

Just excellent extension. Anno Niem wrote a review on August 3rd, 2023 saying that feature doesn't work, but that's probably because they had "Lazy loading restored tabs" enabled which interferes with this extension. I noticed huge lag spikes with lazy load enabled and this extention discarding tabs at startup, it was like Vivaldi tried to load all tabs and TGD'er discarding them simultaneously. With "Lazy Loading Restored Tabs" in Vivaldi this feature works almost as expected, although it doesn't correctly understand Vivaldi's tab stacks correctly meaning it does load some tabs.

RedSnt, 2024-02-07

Makes Chrome usable.

Snow, 2023-09-03

The key feature I wanted "Discard all tabs at startup" is not working for me. I'm on Vivaldi 6.1, started looking for an alternative to "Tab Suspender" as it made 6.1 crash. Sadly this one isn't it, too bad I like the simplicity of it.

Anno Niem, 2023-08-02

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Safety

Risk impact

The Great-er Discarder-er may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.