Generally speaking it appears to be accomplishing just that although I haven't made any measurements and as I have used it everyday except XMAS it hasn't crashed, yet. Google Chrome has disabled the extension The Great Suspender for containing malware, and some users have lost tabs because of it. The extension puts tabs to sleep after a specified amount of time to free up RAM and system resources. In order to minimize RAM more I've been using the Context extension since early December in an attempt to effectively use RAM used by extensions. I've used 'The Great Suspender' extension on Microsoft Edge for quite some time. More an indictment of my level of focus, I guess. ![]() That being said, I normally use 5-8 tabs as I never have been one to keep more than that open at one time. Sure, there's a delay when I switch to a suspended tab while it reloads, but that's the cost of keeping the tab open and available, while trying to keep memory usage under control. ![]() I use The Great Suspender within each group, to suspend tabs within the group that I'm using. The value of The Great Suspender is that it suspends tabs automatically if I haven't used them in a configurable period of time. Sure, theres a delay when I switch to a suspended tab while it reloads, but thats the cost of keeping the tab open and available, while trying to keep memory usage under control. I have created separate groupings based on what function I'm focused on (e.g., report writing, report editing, Reddit reading, Pocket reading, slide deck creation, slide deck editing, email/slack communication, etc.) and then open the grouping up and collapsing the group down as needed. The value of The Great Suspender is that it suspends tabs automatically if I havent used them in a configurable period of time. OneTab provides the ability to group tabs and allows for separate groupings. That being said I continue to use both, as each provides separate functions. 6 alternatives to Auto Tab Discard 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. The Great Suspender provided roughly 50% reduction given the same example. Not the 95% as advertised on OneTab's website, but a considerable savings nonetheless. However based on measurements taken from evaluating 3 different chromebooks (2GB Toshiba CB2, 4GB Toshiba CB2, and 4GB ASUS Flip C100) each running the same stable chrome build and different site tabs having different resource demands (unscientific method to be sure) I can say that OneTab provided roughly a 60% reduction in RAM usage (15 open active tabs using a total of 610MB down to 235MB in one example). It's difficult to measure RAM reduction effectiveness with any degree of surety as each of us have different CBs, with different processors and call up different sites having different RAM resource utilization demands.
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