Reviews & Comments of Lazy Tabs chrome extension
From January 22nd, 2013 to April 4th, 2022, 33% user give 5-star rating, 15% user give 4-star rating, 15% user give 3-star rating, 12% user give 2-star rating, 25% user give 1-star rating. for Lazy Tabs chrome extension.
Reviews of lazy tabs:
In Opera, at startup tabs just keep trying to load with CPU at max
doesn't work
It just works! Chrome is now much more responsive.
Nice onу, really helpful for my Macbook as saves memory that Chrome usually takes a whole lot!
Can't live without this
This extension is a life-saver. Whenever I have multiple tabs running and everything starts to lag, my potato computer comes back to life once I click this extension.
Hey bro you just aliviated me years of headache! Thanks!
Eine tolle Erweiterung. Habe sie mal bei mir im Blog genauer beleuchtet: http://orschi.ro/nicht-alle-tabs-beim-start-von-chrome-laden/
I'm not sure whether to classify this as a bug or a feature request but one HUGE limitation of this extension is that tabs that have not yet loaded a title are saved as blank pages. This means that if you open more than say 5 pages at once, you would have to wait for each page to slowly load one by one before they can be unloaded from ram -or even going one page at a time, you still have to wait for each page to load its title before it can then be discarded, which imo is a needless user interaction. It would be vastly preferable if lazytabs could remember the web addresses of tabs 'in loading queue', or possibly if the unloading mechanism could wait until a title is loaded before unloading each tab. This second option would also help with the use of another extension, tabs outliner, which currently displays no name and not even a web address for tabs that haven't loaded a title. I suppose I could just use tabs outliner for all this, except then I would have to reload the main page and hope that the browser remembers where I'd scrolled to, just to unload pages that I would like to read later. Please consider it, thanks!
I thought it would just make my pages hibernate but it just closed all my tabs, and now I can't get them back, what the hell?
awesomesauce! Thanks. IMO this feature (or lack thereof) should be considered a bug in chrome that it DOESN'T already do this by itself
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Very useful functionality but the icon is a huge turn-off.
How much pain and anger I suffered through years with Chrome without this little button... Now everything has fallen into its place, puzzle is solved. Thank you from the deep of my heart!
New version works very well, however sometimes on startup it gets control before tabs have loaded and therefor can't discard them on startup. When this happens, just click its icon to discard tabs.
Nice app. It works! I'm happy that this app uses ONLY ONE permission "Browser History", while other extensions use too much permissions. Thank you!
It works! This makes the Chrome browser useful and usable. Before lazy tabs I barely used Chrome. I used other browsers which built in lazy loading of tabs. I also like that you can click the icon and it will unload all but the current tab. A great memory saver!
Perfect, except it causes failure of a tricky form on a page I use often: <form method="post" action="/home.nsf/PRMENU?OpenForm&Seq=1&BaseTarget=_blank" name="_PRMENU" target="_blank"> <input type="hidden" name="__Click" value="852570C800185AE6.e4f5a7364d78a0df8525731f0020d0b1/$Body/0.C32"> <input name="PRNumber" value="" target="_blank" <input type="button" value="Go" onclick="return _doClick('852570C800185AE6.e4f5a7364d78a0df8525731f0020d0b1/$Body/0.C32', this, null)"> </form> Would be good if LazyTabs had a setting to disable for certain URLs or domains.
This seems to work properly for me, except a warning: it WILL prevent installing other Chrome extensions from the store unless you disable it when you try. It took me forever to figure out that it was this extension causing it.
Does not work. Still loads every tab previously opened upon launching Chrome. Skip this one.
Doesn't work at all. It's like it's not even there.
Only issue is that I sometimes have to hard refresh a tab (Ctrl+F5), then go to another tab and back in order to make the tab work again. Jman has this extension on GitHub, so I might be able to help fix it if/when it bothers me enough.
Works great, except, we have an issue that it's blocking sync from staying connected. This extension is causing the dreaded "Account sign-in details are out of date" issue that many of us seem to be having. What I really wish, would be for chrome to allow pinned tabs to not load in the background in the first place.
Tabs reload like normal for me.
its great!!
It's the closest best thing to Firefox option.
I would like what ever firefox does with regards to tab loading or suspended loading on start-up.
It does as it says - stops tabs from loading upon startup. However, many tabs simply wouldn't load when I did want them. Refreshing them might bring up the content without the markup, but I couldn't do anything more with the tab. Had to cut and paste the URL into a new tab.
does not completely block inactive tabs, therefor not useful. i like how tiny it is, tho.
works here and there but not good and wastes my time
It loads favicon - See lots of reviews saying it still loads, yea, kind of. Not completely though. As it says. And it didn't play the youtube videos on start up. For me. I wondered why chrome doesn't just have this plugin already apart of chrome. But found this and works great. Thanks. Oh yea, and the guy who said it should be an option to load the favicons too, I agree. Edit: This plugin really deserves a way higher rating. Star wise.
doesnt work. loads all tabs on startup! even all youtube page tabs start playing at same time !
i like it when it works, but it does not work every time and i have no idea why. when it does work, the icons do not load, which makes it hard for me to know what pages are not loading. also, when i click on the tab of the pages that did not load, i have to refresh to get the page back. i appreciate this extension, but i am thinking i may use Firefox for all personal stuff because the tabs loading option works perfectly. unfortunately i have to use Chrome for work.
Must have
Please make it work as in FFx. Open window - load. Not just active window. When you have few windows open it reloads the window. No need. Tx
Does what it says...
Restarted Chrome and plugin didn't do anything. All tabs loaded causing sudden burden on OS.
It parked about half my tags and the other half were just chrome error pages that required me to refresh to see page. Doesn't seem to work as described. On restart all were error pages on second try. A + for author effort.
Didn't appear to have any effect at all. ETA: Actually, it does, if you disable "Run Chrome in Background", which I had enabled because I use the Hangouts App. It works, however I find it inelegant the way it partially loads pages ( for example sometimes CSS does not load, even after refreshing, etc.) Good enough, but a native way to make Chrome itself do this would be so much better.
Does not work with LastPass.. I just can't believe how lame Google is.. what a basic feature: "On startup, only load tabs when selected" I hope they realize what tools they seem to be. sigh
Kinda works... but still takes time loading the base html in each tab. I also noticed that after installing extension, Chrome keeps telling me that I need to "Sign in again" which is really annoying. If this extension actually caused that, then I'd rather stayed logged in versus having this extension installed.
wow, i have been looking for this a while. does exactly what i need it to do. i always leave many tabs open when i close down...and it takes forver to re-load all tabs and content at start-up. this extension only load last focused tab. great! Stops youtube videos from playing unless tab is clicked. icon and title auto load though which is perfect.
Didn't work. Tabs just loaded html only instead of not loading at all.
Doesn't work AT ALL!
I like this extension, it mostly seems to work well. I do get a warning: "This extension failed to redirect a network request to about:blank because another extension (Ghostery) redirected it to data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAACklEQVR4nGMAAQAABQABDQottAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==."
Good extension, but it still renders tabs if it can find some of the tab content in the browser cache. Would be better for memory usage and cpu/gpu usage if Lazy Tabs simply blocked all rendering on a tab until it is viewed. This could also be optional, f course.
Working fine for me. Didn't have to do anything but restart Chrome. It's low maintenance, just runs quietly in the background. I read the recent reviews here and thought it wouldn't do the job, so I went and installed "Magic Actions for YouTube™" - which is nice and has some useful tweaks in it - but I found it was taking too long to load all the tabs at start-up. So I went back to this, and... all I wanted it to do was to stop the youtube video from automatically playing when I started Chrome, and it's doing that very nicely. When I go back to the video tab, it does start playing, but once I stop it, it doesn't start up again during the session until I tell it to. Thx. (Mac OS 10.6.8)
I am guessing Yzurmir Yzurmir has the "Stop Autoplay in Background Tabs for Youtube" extension installed because this extension did not stop the YouTube videos from playing on startup. Perhaps this extension broke after a Chrome update? (It seems to have worked back in 2012 according to Michael Marner.)
Chrome still loads all my saved tabs. Even if it doesn't load them completely as some people suggested, the hit on the CPU is quite obvious. In comparison, Firefox pulls up >40 tabs without a hitch. Disappointed.
Doesn't always work.
I couldn't get it to work either. Still loaded all my tabs. I discovered the hibernate feature of Sidewise extension works. In Sidewise options, see Tab Hibernation, check Remember Tabs and Wake Tabs on Click, and then go to Chrome settings and on startup, Open the New Tab page. Sidewise saves your last session, not Chrome itself.
Doesn't work. It's still loading all the pages.