Auto Tab Discard chrome extension

What is Auto Tab Discard?

Auto Tab Discard is a tab manager extension for chrome. also, it is tab discarding extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 100,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.17 from 243 rated user, last update is 491 days ago.

What’s new in version 0.6.7.1?

                "Auto Tab Discard" is a lightweight browser extension that automatically reduces the amount of memory used by open but inactive tabs, helping to conserve battery life on portable devices by disabling JavaScript code and DOM events on discarded tabs.

Preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityhxUPp3y8

Instruction:

There are two options on the extension's interface to either discard tabs or release discarding (the "x" buttons)


The features of "Auto Tab Discard" are:

  * Improves browser performance and reduces memory usage by automatically or manually discarding inactive, idle, or forgotten tabs.
  * Includes a list of hostnames or regular expressions that can be excluded from auto-discarding.
  * Preserves the discarded state of tabs when the browser is closed and reopened.
  * Indicates the discarded state of a tab through the favicon or title.
  * Restores the state of a tab, including scroll position and text box content, after it is released from being discarded.
  * Allows for the forced discarding of specified hostnames.


The options for configuring whether tabs should be discarded or not include:

  * Pinned tabs
  * Tabs that are playing media
  * The presence of a power source
  * Unsaved content or user input in a tab

The available plugins for "Auto Tab Discard" are:

  * Release the discarded state of the next or previous tab.
  * Release the discarded state of all tabs in the active window.
  * Automatically discard all newly opened inactive tabs.
  * Store YouTube's timestamp before a tab is discarded.
  * Permanently delete (remove) old discarded tabs that are inactive.

Notes:

  * Unlike the "The Great Suspender" extension, this extension uses the native method for discarding tabs, which means that even if the extension is removed or the browser crashes, your browser will automatically restore everything for you.

Privacy Policy:

https://webextension.org/privacy-policy/extension/tab-discard.html            

How to install Auto Tab Discard?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Auto Tab Discard

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Reviews of auto tab discard:

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Jahir Fiquitiva March 24th, 2023

Please add support for Arc browser. Some tabs are discarded even when active, and pinned tabs are also discarded

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Sreithel March 22nd, 2023

Does what it says on the tin and saves me what would otherwise be 15 gigs of RAM down the toilet. Keeps Chrome from turning my 5600X into its chew toy. Browser no longer hangs into oblivion when I load up my 3200 tabs on startup (*1/3 is Japanese vocab...).

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Kyle F. March 13th, 2023

Depending on your needs/wants if using Google Chrome, you may not need this extension anymore, and it could conflict if you don't disable chrome's new memory saver. Recent versions of Chrome/Chromium have a memory saver feature now that users can toggle and set some rules on: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/12929150?visit_id=638143379493077833-2992852545&p=chrome_memory_saver&rd=1#memory_saver&zippy=%2Cturn-memory-saver-on-or-off

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