Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 13148878
866 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18613498, 4 days agoThis extension is nothing short of revolutionary for heavy browser users like me. As someone who regularly juggles dozens, sometimes hundreds, of tabs across multiple Firefox windows, I've experienced firsthand the strain this puts on system resources. With only 16GB of RAM on my Mac, I often found myself teetering on the edge of 80-90% memory usage, a situation that even dedicated memory cleaning apps struggled to alleviate for more than a few seconds
Unbelievable Performance
Auto Tab Discard is on a whole different level than other tab management solutions I've tried.
• Dramatic Memory Reduction: With around 50 tabs open, the extension's impact was immediately noticeable. However, the true test came when I pushed it to the limit .
• Handling Hundreds of Tabs: Upon opening hundreds of tabs across several Firefox windows, my system's memory usage skyrocketed to 90%. Activating Auto Tab Discard resulted in an astonishing drop to 53% memory usage - a level that remained stable!! What?! ?
• Consistent Performance: Even after adding another 80 tabs in a new window and starting a YouTube video, the extension managed to keep memory usage hovering around 50%.
In my opinion, if you are a power user and struggle with browser & memory issues from having tons of tabs open, this extension’s ability to dramatically reduce memory consumption while maintaining a smooth browsing experience will shock you. At least, it has shocked me. It has fundamentally changed how I manage my browser workflow, allowing me to keep numerous tabs open without sacrificing system performance. Frankly, I’m gobsmacked. - Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by hellomynameisConnor, 16 days agoWorks great, but I'm worried that it hasn't been updated in two years.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Steven_Aston, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Intense, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by renatodolce, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by filtercoffee, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by OliverWolf, 25 days agoAbsolutely fantastic addon. I'm a tab hoarder and this cut my ram usage from 45GB down to 20GB! Very impressed!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Shade74, 25 days agoThis add-on works very well for improving performance, is easy to use, and has lots of customization options. However, one feature that it's sorely missing is the ability to view a tab or bring a tab into focus without un-discarding it. This is a major issue for me because I scroll through tabs to navigate my browser, so I end up loading a bunch of tabs I don't want to load. If there was an option to only un-discard a tab when I click in the tab instead of when I open it, this would be perfect.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18623390, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jr413, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Rikko, a month agoВ целом хорошо.
Из нюансов:
1. Значок 💤 отнимает полезное пространство и не так хорошо сигнализирует как если бы сама иконка сайта становилась серой, как в The Marvellous Suspender, например. Иногда возникает путаница если 💤 эмодзи присутствует в названии сайта.
2. Скорость загрузки выгруженного сайта занимает много немного больше времени, чем ожидаешь и этим раздражает.
3. Большая нагрузка при выгрузке и попытках выгрузки сайтов расширением. С включением данного расширения появляются периодические подвисания системы. - Rated 5 out of 5by pdr, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fractal-7, 2 months agoGreat add-on, why is this not integrated into Firefox directly? Pretty sure Chrome is good at suspending tabs intelligently, but FF lately has been hogging CPU on certain idle sites, just freeze their DOM & JS execution.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11803080, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zeblur, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18593181, 2 months agoGreat add-on, thank you! Would it be possible to add an option to disable all tabs except the current one? That would be incredibly useful.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mephistopheles, 2 months agoGreat idea, but didn't work for what I wanted it to do (Stop nazibook from refreshing when I didn't tell it to) and the settings menu wasn't exactly clear
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrii, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tim, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by looptit, 3 months agoExtremely customizable, convenient, and does exactly what you want it to and more. A great extension for saving battery and memory whilst retaining any information you have on these pages and won't put tabs to sleep that have important information on them. Great extension.