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Take a look at Tab Wrangler extension. It closes tabs you haven’t used in a while.

• bogomipz 8y ago
  I am curious if you how how this compares to The Great Suspender? I also don't understand why Chrome and Firefox don't buil tab managers directly into the browser.
  • opencl 8y ago
    Firefox used to have Tab Groups, it got removed but the webextension API got some new features specifically to support similar functionality in an extension. i.e. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panoram... In reality I think it's just not a priority for browser devs because the overwhelming majority of users do not use huge numbers of tabs.
    • bogomipz 8y ago
      Thanks. Yeah I suspect tab junkies are probably a minority. Do you know is the latest Firefox on par with Chrome in terms of tab usage and memory footprint?
      • opencl 8y ago
        Memory usage in FF with lots of tabs seems a bit better than Chrome, CPU usage seems a bit worse. I think the UI does a significantly better job of handling them though, since Chrome just shrinks everything until there's no text left. About a year ago FF was really awful with lots of tabs, CPU usage was very high and the UI would occasionally freeze up for 10+ seconds at a time. They're really been making some big performance improvements lately.