The Great Discarder

Automatically discards unused tabs to free up system resources. Suspend tabs to reduce chrome memory usage. Uses chrome's native tab discarding.

Free
Open Source
Chrome OS
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Chrome
Vivaldi Browser

"the great discarder" is a clone of the authors other open source chrome extension "the great suspender". it was built to take advantage of google's new 'tab discarding' functionality which is essentially a native implementation of tab suspension. this implementation is more robust and performant, both in the resources consumed by the extension, and the memory savings of the tab suspension. it is also compatible with chrome tab history syncing.

advantages over the great suspender: more memory savings compatible with chrome tab syncing super lightweight extension that uses no content scripts or persistent background scripts

disadvantages over the great suspender: no visibility on which tabs have been suspended unable to prevent a tab from reloading when it gains focus

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