On browser startup all the tabs are kept suspended thus no exessive RAM is consumed and no network is used to preload unnecessary tabs. Repeats original loading behavior of opera 45.
Almost all description is copied from original TheGreatSuspender repository.
"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.
If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, please submit a bug or a feature request. For other enquiries you can email me at greatsuspender@gmail.com.
I am currently rolling out a new chrome webstore release.
If you have lost tabs from your browser: I have written a guide for how to recover your lost tabs here.
If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, please submit a bug or a feature request.
- Download the latest available version and unarchive to your preferred location (whichever suits you).
- Using Google Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://extensions/ and enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner.
- Using Opera browser, navigate to opera://extensions/ and enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner. You also need to install Install Chrome Extensions
- Click on the Load unpacked extension... button.
- Browse to the src directory of the downloaded, unarchived release and confirm.
If you have completed the above steps, the "welcome" page will open indicating successful installation of the extension.
Be sure to unsuspend all suspended tabs before removing any other version of the extension or they will disappear forever!
Dependencies: openssl, npm.
Clone the repository and run these commands:
npm install
npm run generate-key
npm run build
It should say:
Done, without errors.
The extension in crx format will be inside the build/crx/ directory. You can drag it into [extensions] (chrome://extensions) to install locally.
This extension has a small external api to allow other extensions to request the suspension of a tab. See this issue for more information. And please let me know about it so that I can try it out!
Contributions are very welcome. Feel free to submit pull requests for new features and bug fixes. For new features, ideally you would raise an issue for the proposed change first so that we can discuss ideas. This will go a long way to ensuring your pull request is accepted.
This work is licensed under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v2)
This package uses the html2canvas library written by Niklas von Hertzen.
It also uses the indexedDb wrapper db.js written by Aaron Powell.
Thank you also to BrowserStack for providing free chrome testing tools.