Unload idle tabs to free your precious memory and cpu resources!
Tiny Suspender will automatically suspend/hibernate background tabs for you, greatly reducing overall system resource usage without you having to take any action. You can set how long to wait before suspending idle tabs and configure a whitelist to exclude certain pages from automatic suspension.
Features:
– Form Detection: Tiny Suspender will also try to detect active form to avoid automatically suspending page with unsubmitted form
– Audio Detection (optional): prevent autosuspending tab that plays music in the background.
– Snooze: Temporarily prevent autosuspension on a specific tab
– Whitelist: Excludes specifics domains, pages, tabs or pinned tabs.
– Keyboard Shortcuts: Suspend tabs without moving your hand away from your keyboard.
– Dark Mode theme (optional)
– Experimental feature: Use Chrome’s native tab discard feature to save even more resources when your background tabs get suspended.
Feedback is always welcome!
– Source code and issue tracking are available at https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender
– Due to limitation of Chrome Web Store developer portal, extension developers are not automatically notified every time a user leave a feedback to report an issue. Please use email or github issue report ( https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender/issues ) if you need fast response.
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Chrome Permissions used in this extension:
– tabs & activeTab: allows various tab suspension/restore features and form detection feature.
– contextMenus: allows adding “suspend tab” menu item in right click context menu.
– storage: allows saving extension configuration
– alarm: allows centralized and more reliable autosuspension timer
– chrome://favicon/* : allows retrieving suspended page’s favicon.
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Changelog:
– v1.3.0:
– Added dark mode toggle (thanks Abdusco for the pull request on github!)
– v1.2.0:
– Happy new year!
– Added an option to skip autosuspension when offline
– Added support for keyboard shortcuts
– Tiny Suspender will now try to restore tab scroll position
– v1.1.0:
– Added option to skip pinned tabs from automatic suspension
– “Suspend All Tabs” and “Suspend Other Tabs” now will skip whitelisted pages.
– Added experimental support for Chrome native tab discard feature. Enable it from the settings screen.
– v1.0.1: Minor bugfix
– v1.0.0: We have reached version 1!
– improved autosuspension timer by using Chrome’s alarm api. Requires new permission.
– UI improvements. Now you can always see tab suspension status from the popup. Status is also reflected as color-coded icon
– improved form detection.
– added an option to enable autorestore when a suspended tab is brought to foreground.
– added an option to prevent autosuspending audible tabs. Useful for online music player.
– v0.1.4: fix a bug in suspension procedure.
– v0.1.3: removed unnecessary permissions.
– v0.1.2: switching away from unloaded page willl trigger automatic suspend timer.
– v0.1.1: fixed bug in whitelisting and auto-suspension feature.
Мені подобається! Дякую!
Have used it for about 3 weeks, works fine, restored fine even when my pc crashed and had to hard reboot.
I was looking for an alternative for The Great Suspender and this one does the job just fine, I’m not experiencing any problems on the newest version of Brave (1.20.110).
I would like to be able to set a shortcut to suspend only the active tab of my active window, though, like the “Suspend This Tab” option in the context menu. The “Suspend active tab” shortcut suspends the active tab of all my open browser windows.
Moved from “The great suspender” and i think “Tiny suspender” is not just great alternative of TGS but it is better for performance side.
Since TGS perform kind of a “Reloading tab” job on opening chrome, TGS takes some times for opening chrome.
So if you are like me, having a bunch of tabs like 800+tabs, you can actually feel the difference.
Came from The Great Suspender, I like being able to suspend when I CHOOSE TO, not automatically.
Good replacement!
Hace su trabajo excelente, reduce considerablemente el uso de ram, excelente alternativa para “The Great Suspender”, no le pide nada
Great extension. Migrated from The Great Suspender after they found a malware in it. Hoping this never happens here. So far I like it. Thanx TS developer!
Moved from infamous Great Suspender. Tried 2 other extensions. Finally found this one. It works very smooth and is really user-friendly.
o melhor! pequeno e confiável!
User-friendly, and does what I require of it. Suspends/restores all or individually.
Amazing concept for an extension. Would love a simple one-click suspend active tab.
90% useless because it auto suspends the active tab in EVERY open browser window, every time you click it. Issue has been known for over a year and not been fixed; assuming extension’s abandoned.
Didn’t find the extension working as I wanted to, but that’s not the problem. After removing the extension, most of my tabs, including pinned ones, automatically closed, how could that be related?
Working awesome and does exactly what it is intended to do. One thing I would love (if possible) is for it to save & display a screenshot of the suspended tab’s content so that it’s easier to discern what it was before it got suspended. (sometimes the website subject alone isn’t enough)
Somewhat annoyed with this extension but it’s so small I put up with it. My biggest gripe is every time I open a new tab it hibernates at the time internal I set, which wouldn’t be a problem normally or if I weren’t still using the active tab when it does this but even while I’m typing (baaaam) it goes into hibernate, much of the time I lose data important to me like a long email or wordy forum post as the tab has to reload to wake up losing what I typed in the process. If that didn’t happen, easy 4 stars. Other problem, dark mode does not always persist.
Thanks. Please add keyboard shortcuts for actions: suspend, suspend all etc.
Good concept, what I wanted, to be able to control suspensions, BUT tried it out on three tabs. Suspended them nicely. Check in Task Manager, swap useage went down. BUT could NOT wake them up! Not by what it says, to click anywhere. Tried to menu, wake up this tab, wake up all suspended tabs. Nothing worked. Had to send them all to One Tab to save them. Uninstalling.
THOUGHT I HAD UNINSTALLED IT! It wasn’t and suspended 3 tabs. In anger, uninstalled it again. Since I could NOT UNSUSPEND THEM, I sent them to OneTab, hoping. NOW THERE IS A BUNCH OF CODING WHICH i SUPPOSED i CAN UNCODE, with all those extra signs in between, or may be able to read to know what they were.
Why does it not UNsuspend??
good 🙂
Context-menue on tabs would be even better 🙂
What about dark mode for suspended tabs, meaning white or black color?
And could you make an option to open background tabs always in suspended mode?
thx
I moved from “Tab Suspender” even though it worked perfect. Tab suspender has an annoying issue I don’t like. Tab Suspender places an icon in the center of the page. If the mouse cursor runs across the icon, the page wakes up. I regularly accidentally wake up a page VERY often. Tiny suspender however does not open a page unless you click the Mouse button. PERFECT. NO accidents. So far this add on is absolutely fantastic. It works exactly as expected. I can right click and suspend a tab or click to wake up. I have all the automatic and manual controls desired and that are helpful. Thanks!!!
Using this extension with the native discards functionality. It’s absolutely wonderful. My RAM utilization has gone from 6+ GB to around 1 GB, and CPU doesn’t randomly spike from some webpage constantly loading ads in the background. Super happy with this extension, give it a shot.
I’ve tried a few similar extensions, and while this one ranks high, it had a dealbreaker issue for me: There’s no way to tell which tabs are suspended without visiting them. If this extension faded the favicons of suspended tabs so one could tell at a glance which tabs were suspended, it might be my #1.
As far as I’ve researched. other tab suspenders don’t have the option NOT to automatically suspend tabs and to only manually suspend/unsuspend with keyboard shortcuts, just the way I like it. Thanks author. (to disable automatic suspension, set timer to 0)
(edit: After some time using it, I’ve learned that suspending one tab in one window has an effect on a tab in another window as well. This is unexpected and unwanted behavior. Details: I am suspending 16th tab in first window, and the 11h tab of the second window also gets suspended. The reverse is also true. Note: this only happens when I am using the shortcut keys for suspending/unsuspending)
Me parece que es el mejor, al menos de los que he probado, permite patrones de urls a hibernar y hotkeys, entre otros.
I feel like it should know not to suspend forms that haven’t been submitted. I deleted it because that was a pretty catastrophic suspend.
Suspends tabs permanently,does’t restore if you return, click the screen, or click the restore option in the tiny suspender menu. (And yes, this claims to support my device.)
Works perfectly and smoothly!
I like the feature of automatically waking up pages when they are brought to foreground.