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The Great Suspender

The Great Suspender is a lightweight chrome extension to help reduce chrome's memory footprint for users that like to have too many tabs open at the same time. This extension will automagically unload each tab while retaining its favicon and title text.

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Platforms

  • Online
  • Google Chrome
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The Great Suspender has been removed from the Google Chrome Web Store due to being malware since November 2020. https://lifehacker.com/ditch-the-great-suspender-before-it-becomes-a-security-1845989664

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Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Resource management
  3.  Session Management
  4.  Memory Optimization
  5.  Unload inactive tabs
  6.  Tab Manager
  7.  Safari extension

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Thunder Z
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Needs to also be on firefox, this program is awesome

Top Negative Comment
Peter Mello
1

A very poor choice by a good developer to sell this extension to a hacking group in 2020. Their efforts to use it to exfiltrate user keystrokes and credentials were detected by Google, resulting in a permanent ban and a net loss for all involved. Capitalism is the worst.

Thunder Z

The developer's actions were wrong, not sure what this has to do with capitalism though. It is up to individuals and society to ensure ethical business practices.

ben_goldberg
4

In June 2020, The Great Suspender was sold by it's original author/owner/maintainer to an unnamed third party, who has since added malware to it.

If you download the extension from it's github repository, using the last release before the sale, consider it a 5-star app. Possibly 4-star, but only because you want get any more updates from it.

If you have the latest version from the google chrome store, consider it a zero-star app.

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What is The Great Suspender?

The Great Suspender is a lightweight chrome extension to help reduce chrome's memory footprint for users that like to have too many tabs open at the same time. This extension will automagically unload each tab while retaining its favicon and title text. A tab can be restored by clicking anywhere on the page when it is needed. This reduces the number of dom elements on the page and ensures no memory leaks or excessive javascripts are running. It also offers the functionality to automatically suspend tabs after a user-defined period of time similar to the extension tabmemfree. There is also a whitelist so that this auto-suspend functionality can be disabled for certain tabs.

It is now compatible with Session Buddy so that suspended tabs can be restored just like loaded tabs. It will also retain suspended tabs after a restart like the BarTab extension for Firefox, meaning that you don't have to wait for all of your tabs to reload when you restart chrome.

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GitHub repository

  •  5,079 Stars
  •  822 Forks
  •  392 Open Issues
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about The Great Suspender, and it has gotten 60 likes

The Great Suspender was added to AlternativeTo by piotrex on and this page was last updated . The Great Suspender is sometimes referred to as Great Suspender.