The Great Discarder is described as 'Automatically discards unused tabs to free up system resources. Suspend tabs to reduce chrome memory usage. Uses chrome's native tab discarding' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to The Great Discarder for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Mac, Google Chrome and Linux apps. The best The Great Discarder alternative is Firemin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Great Discarder are Auto Tab Discard, UnloadTab, Tiny Suspender and Total Suspender.
Firemin is a small utility to reduce the amount of memory Firefox or other browsers use. Although Firefox memory usage improved a little over the last few years, it still uses a lot of memory.
Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of your browser when many tabs are opened.
An essential add-on for power users that have many tabs open. Curb your resource usage by unloading tabs that you haven't visited for a while. An unloaded tab is restored back to its original state when you need it again.
This Chrome/Iron extension is inspired by the excellent Firefox extension - BarTab, although it's much less sophisticated and powerful.
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