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Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.

minot 10y ago
(To add to the description, from their github readme) > "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender
bogomipz 10y ago
Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
- wheelerwj 10y ago
  chrome already has this behavior built in, start where I left off under settings. Is this different?
  - ahmedfromtunis 10y ago
    Yep. You can save named sessions so that you can go back in time as needed.
    - bogomipz 10y ago
      Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.
  - mkl 10y ago
    Chrome's session restore silently loses tabs when you have a lot open. It is completely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes a window will come back with half the tabs missing, which is obvious, but when it's only a couple missing, it's much harder to even know. Also, Session Buddy lets you export sessions to back them up and move them between computers, etc.
    - rrdharan 10y ago
      If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?
  - deleted 10y ago
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somecallitblues 10y ago
But then you miss out on the new chance at life http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser-window-23-tabs-open-p-54705 http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser...
- notatoad 10y ago
  23? is that a lot? that's about normal for me, and i didn't think i was too bad. my office mate usually has a couple hundred tabs open.
  - jholman 10y ago
    Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.
    - majewsky 10y ago
      Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)

minot 10y ago

(To add to the description, from their github readme) > "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

bogomipz 10y ago

Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

wheelerwj 10y ago
chrome already has this behavior built in, start where I left off under settings. Is this different?
- ahmedfromtunis 10y ago
  Yep. You can save named sessions so that you can go back in time as needed.
  - bogomipz 10y ago
    Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.
- mkl 10y ago
  Chrome's session restore silently loses tabs when you have a lot open. It is completely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes a window will come back with half the tabs missing, which is obvious, but when it's only a couple missing, it's much harder to even know. Also, Session Buddy lets you export sessions to back them up and move them between computers, etc.
  - rrdharan 10y ago
    If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?
- deleted 10y ago
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somecallitblues 10y ago

But then you miss out on the new chance at life http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser-window-23-tabs-open-p-54705 http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser...

notatoad 10y ago
23? is that a lot? that's about normal for me, and i didn't think i was too bad. my office mate usually has a couple hundred tabs open.
- jholman 10y ago
  Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.
  - majewsky 10y ago
    Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)