The Great Suspender

The Great Suspender

An extension that automatically suspends unused tabs for you

5.0•2 reviews•

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A lightweight extension to reduce chrome's memory footprint. Perfect if you have a lot of tabs open at the same time. Tabs that have not been viewed after a configurable length of time will be automagically suspended in the background, freeing up the memory and CPU being consumed by that tab.
This is the 2nd launch from The Great Suspender. View more
The Great Suspender Recovery Tool

The Great Suspender Recovery Tool

Recover your lost Great Suspender tabs
This extension attempts to recover your suspended Great Suspender tabs by searching your browser history and displaying any found suspended tabs.
You can then:
- adjust grouping, sorting and detail
- save as folders and bookmarks
- copy data to the clipboard
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What do you think? …

Dave Stewart
Maker
Last night at about 9pm Chrome decided to nuke The Great Suspender. Luckily for me it's not something I use, but Twitter started to go crazy with reports of people losing tabs and weeks or months of work. However, being an extension developer I realised pretty quickly I could build something to at least restore tabs from History, so I set to work. By 1am I had a POC, by 4am I had it bookmarking, and by 6am it was ready to go live. Between the hours of 6 and 8am I got trigger happy on Twitter, and now it's 8am I'm releasing just after 12am Pacific time! Hopefully it will be a slightly less stressful day for those of you who've lost your tabs, and I'll wake up to see a few upvotes at least :D Night night x
Aaron O'Leary
@dave_stewart This is a brilliant origin story for a product lol. Quick turn around!
Dave Stewart
Maker
Thank you, @aaronoleary !
Menj
It's looking for manifest file. https://github.com/davestewart/g...
Dave Stewart
Maker
@menjilx load the code folder not the root folder! I may move the manifest to the root just to make it easier for people...
Dave Stewart
Maker
@menjilx though saying that, it won't matter when the extension passes review in the web store
Muhammad Vaid
Thanks, this is a real lifesaver!