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Is there a reason this extension still exists, given that tabs get heavily deprioritized when not in focus, and have been for many, many versions now?
by TheRealPomax 6y ago
Is there a reason this extension still exists, given that tabs get heavily deprioritized when not in focus, and have been for many, many versions now?
- spiffytech 6y agoChrome throttles tab CPU activities when backgrounded, but doesn't clear memory for the tab. For users like me who usually have 50-800 tabs open across all my browser windows, that really adds up. I also appreciate (err... appreciated) The Great Suspender because I didn't want all of those tabs active every time I opened a browser, so I'd have scores of tabs that never even got loaded, but were ready to go the moment I wanted to return to them.
- shawnz 6y agoChrome does discard the memory of tabs that haven't been used recently and Great Suspender can be configured to make use of that functionality.
- dbbk 6y agoThey get throttled but still kept in memory. This drops them from memory.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoI'm genuinely curious why that would matter: modern operating systems (heck, even not so modern ones) already move stale data from active memory to virtual memory in order to service active processes/threads, so if you're the kind of person who keeps hundreds of tabs open (and memory isn't the real problem if you do) then the OS is already keeping all that content on disk, not in memory...