Reviews & Comments of The Great Discarder chrome extension
From December 31st, 2016 to April 7th, 2023, 71% user give 5-star rating, 7% user give 4-star rating, 10% user give 3-star rating, 5% user give 2-star rating, 7% user give 1-star rating. for The Great Discarder chrome extension.
Reviews of the great discarder:
Great. It does what it's supposed to do. A Vivaldi User.
Having tried this, then The Marvelous Suspender, then back to this, I can safely say as a Vivaldi (Chromium) user that The Great Discarder is the better of the two. I have to say, I wanted to like The Marvelous Suspender, but it isn't as good as this.
can you make it such that tabs get suspended by days. like i want tabs of today or this week to be active and older than a week or day etc to be suspended. it would really be useful
So far so good, I recommend
Add features pls, like the ability to not suspend pined tabs or tabs that are playing audio, when i have to suspend tabs i always have to go in the Youtube Music tab in order for the music to not stop, add force suspend too.
It's work again. I was remove this extension 3 days ago. But now is working I thinks they fixed the malware issue.
the once alternative Great Tab Suspender, that doesn't ask permission : extension can read and change all hope it works great )
I just added this based on the whole "malware" "issue" of The Great Suspender. I REALLY loved The Great Suspender. I liked the flexibility of being able to un-suspend a tab. Now? I don't know whether a tab is suspended or "discarded" or whether this is the same thing. I've also noticed that if I do "discard" a tab that you can't even tell if it's suspended... which makes me wonder how the heck you can even save on memory if a tab is technically still active??? Please work on making a suspension option. This "discard" function is not all that great to me. And, from the reviews of others that simply enjoyed the other extension I can see that I am not the only one.
Great tool to save tabs for later without eating away your RAM
This extension used to save me so much memory when it was known as the great suspender. Unfortunatly google reviewed it as malware and closed at least 50 important tabs on me so boo google and yey suspension labs
Really quickly TLDR on current issue: BAD NEWS FIRST; as of early Thursday 04/02/2021 (dd/mm/yyyy)"The Great Suspender" has been removed entirely by Google from the Chrome Browser Store on the basis that it CONTAINS MALWARE (its URL gives a error 404 meaning its gone off the web). THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO "The Great Suspender" extension. "The Great Discarder" IS NOT a repurposed tool nor is it work around for "The Great Suspender" and is a separate extension that does not do the same work way. "THE Great Discarder" and any other extension(s) made by the same dev(s) aside from "The Great Suspender" (which is deleted and gone) which have been stopped and disabled but will still exist until further notice. GOOD NEWS: Reddit has a way to help get some if not all tabs back DO NOT DELETE YOUR BROWSER HISTORY I will explain below. Please help get this to the top of the "helpful" tab so other may know. <<<More info below>>> IN YOUR BROWSER HISTORY SEARCHBAR PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS JUMBLED LINE OF LETTERS BELOW THIS STATMENT INTO YOUR HISTORY'S SEARCH BAR. Again DO NOT DELETE YOUR BROWSER HISTORY. klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Above the arrows pointing at what is the common URL that "The Great suspender" uses often to suspend your tabs. Most to near all of your tabs have been linked through "The Great suspender" via that line of letters so if you scroll through you will hopefully find all the sites and links you need or to regain back but you'll have to examine each one the old fashioned way and click each one to find what you need so DO NOT DELETE YOUR SAVE HISTORY or those tabs get deleted too (only delete your history one by one once your 20000% positive you need nothing else from those tabs that the "The Great Suspender" extension has touched). I also have tips on my own experiences on how you can at least save your tabs for the future even if it still does not save RAM if you need it. I will try to reply as fast and well to the best of my ability.
looks like it's been updated with malware
Great
This same functionality, by the same person that wrote this extension, is available in the Great Suspender, which is actively maintained. but you have to look for the link to the debug page on the settings page to get access to change the setting from suspend to discard.
A must-have extension for every heavy tab/window user
Closes unused tabs for you incase you forgot to close them yourself. X'D
If it could keep all other tabs discarded except the active tab on startup it would have been a killing extension.
Doesn't work if the window with suspended tabs is closed and reopened. The memory is as high as ever (The Great Suspender has the same problem). It's a problem on Windows 10 considering its tendency to restart without asking first. Pretty much a worse copycat of the Suspender with less options and no indication of which tabs are discarded. (Note: chrome://discards is too slow+clumsy to use effectively)
Like it so far. Works as described. Saves a whole lot of RAM.
this addon is a godsend for 2gb chromebooks
Love your work suspension labs. Now what about an option to intelligently clobber pages that are using CPU in the background? Or lots of memory? Or an option to try to manage your maximum memory usage of chrome? (Discarding background pages as needed on demand) Such approaches could be less annoying than the time-based 'carpet bombing' approach of both current tools... Please consider!
Just don't forget to un-suspend your tabs if you are changing extensions!
MUCH better than The Great Suspender. I see no more 404 errors and performance is seemingly better than Suspender's when it comes to relaunching Chrome (where Suspender faced.. problems). I've mapped Alt + A to discard ALL tabs from ALL windows. I recommend others looking for "Discard tabs on startup" to do the same in the meantime. I don't think the feature will be added and it's hardly a hassle once the hotkey is set. Heh. What I really need is for Chrome to have "Workspaces" where I can just set things aside momentarily. As it stands I've got only "Bookmark it" or "Leave it open" and, while that's fine, it would be nice to have. I switch between unrelated tasks and it's far less time consuming to keep the tabs open than it is to somehow re-open them once I need them again. So that's what this extension is for! :)
with great suspender there are many tabs which doesnot get unloaded efficentely..this one unloads and discards more tabs saving more memory. one of the best extension to reduce memory clutter..really works
Not as useful as The Great Suspender, this is much more difficult to use. Not only can you not tell which tabs are suspended (Which is warned by this extension's page), but every time I manually suspend a tab it throws me into another tab and restores it automatically. This would drive me crazy especially after using The Great Suspender for so long.
right click context menu would be helpful. Is it impossible? btw, nice extension! :D
This extension is really well done. No fuss, no muss, and it is using Chrome's discards API which means it is well integrated with Chrome. Love it! It would be very useful to have an option for discarding tabs on startup, similar to how the extension "Native Lazy Tabs" does it.
In great suspender, if i opened a suspended tab, it won't load automatically. But with discard it reload automatically giving me no choice.
I knew before switching to Chrome that the Great Suspender was an extension to get, so naturally, the Great Discarder came as an useful "upgrade". Excellent extension.
The new Chrome Discard API is a God send for improving battery life on notebooks. This app makes it even more powerful and user friendly.
It is not productive to click and activate inside all windows as I switch from one tab to another. I uninstalled the extension and it closed all my tabs [GONE].
I have been using this for a couple of months and I could see a huge performance boost on my MacBook Pro. Prior to that my Chrome used to hang everyday and had to force kill it. Thanks for making this wonderful tool!
Highly recommend, now I don't have to worry about the number of tabs I have open slowing down my machine as this helps better use resources with an extreme noticeable difference.
well.... it does nothing!
Superior to Chrome's built in tab discarded in every way. Highly recommended - makes Chrome way more usable with several tabs open and a low amount of RAM!
I thought your previous extension was good, but this is an insane improvement. I do however not get the desired effect from the timer function. Instead, I have simply set a keyboard shortcut to discard all sites "Alt+D". I have a persistent onscreen Performance Monitor, and Almost instantly after I press Alt+D, I can see the load on ram, and especially the load on CPU plummet. This extension is simply one of my "must have extensions". __________________________ NOTE FOR DEV.: I don't know if you have noticed, but there is an almost exact copy of "The Great Suspender" on the chrome store, exactly the same layout, settings etc. It seems someone has made a copy of your extension, and only changed the favicon. The extension is called "Tab Suspender" and is published by ATCS
Works well, as expected.
Just what is needed
Thanks for revamping the great suspender into nothing more than it needed to be. It's really great!
You just made my 2016 <3
nice work guys