02-05-2021

Tab Suspender

Tab Suspender Chrome Extension
Tab Suspender Firefox

Tab Suspender is a Google Chrome Extension that automatically suspends and hibernates inactive tabs to save up to 80% of memory. This extension can also reduce the overall load on your device, improve battery life and reduce heat. Improve Chrome Speeds by suspending tabs. These tabs then consume fewer processor resources. Description Sometimes it takes more than a belt to keep your most important cargo in place. These cotton/elastic suspenders have Bridle Leather tabs for attaching to suspender buttons or rivets.

After seeing 'Webpage using significant energy' all the time and moving and clicking the mouse felt like I'm in a slow-motion video, I decided to install the Great Suspender that Chrome has and I use every day at work, but, lo and behold another extension that does not exist anymore in Safari thanks to their excellent decision of killing all the existing Safari extensions made until 2018?.After googling for a while I found myself here, so while I did not have the issue the previous user mentions, there are a couple of gotchas, especially if you are used to the Great Suspender.Pros:- It does in fact reduce the ram and cpu used by Safari. I don't know if it reaches the claimed '60%', but, there is a noticeable difference- It has some interesting configuration options- Dark mode! It's useful to scroll through the tabs at night without getting temporary blindness Neutral:- Premium: I'm used to free extensions in Chrome so this got my attention. On the other hand, all free options are fine for most users plus if you do go premium, it's a one time payment and you get it for less than $1Cons:- There's this message 'Restoring tabs' that shows up every time you start Safari, it's a bit annoying if you restart often. I get it's there for a reason so I assume Safari does something that other browsers don't? After the great extension massacre I appreciate more the ones that survived it so I won't punish the rating for this.There's room for improvement but in the end it does its job well. My mbp still overheats, but not enough to fry eggs anymore

The Tab Suspender is an extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other supported web browsers. It enables you to manually discard all open tabs except the current one.

Install it from Google Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Firefox AMO store. If you are using other Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge Preview, Opera, Brave, Yandex etc., you should be able to install and use it from Chrome Web Store.

Features

This extension helps users to manually suspend all open tabs except the current tab. Users can choose to suspend tabs either in all open windows including active window, or just in the other windows.

By suspending other tabs, you can clear up memory and boost performance of your browser instantly. Read More →.