Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by smayer97
Rated 2 out of 5
by smayer97, 4 years agoReally appreciate this add-on BUT somewhat buggy add-on... Discarded tab often does not stay discarded.
And if use the "Open a temporary blank page when all tabs in an inactive window are discarded (to be able to discard the active tab on this window)", the discarded tabs often revert back to loaded tabs after a while (within about 20-30 mins in my experience), especially when you use the Discard All Tabs or are discarding the last loaded tab in a window. UGH!
[Edit Jan 25, 2023 - Will this ever get fixed???]
Also, why not use the technique The Great Suspender used (only available or
Chrome)? Instead of a new tab to suspend the last one, it was able to suspend in place.... much more elegant and does not create new tabs.
[EDIT: Jan 28, 2023 - Meanwhile, I just figured out a workaround to stop the discarded tabs from re-loading under the above use-case... When discarding the last tab loaded, Auto Tab Discard opens a "blank" tab page to accomplish this. But AFTER such a discarded tab reloads, that tab/page automatically closes again and the discarded tab reloads. SO AFTER that tab reloads (and the blank tab is closed), simply press COMMAND-SHIFT-T. This will bring back the blank page and discard the last tab again. BUT THIS TIME the discarded tab WILL discarded.
This might give a clue on how to fix this?
And if use the "Open a temporary blank page when all tabs in an inactive window are discarded (to be able to discard the active tab on this window)", the discarded tabs often revert back to loaded tabs after a while (within about 20-30 mins in my experience), especially when you use the Discard All Tabs or are discarding the last loaded tab in a window. UGH!
[Edit Jan 25, 2023 - Will this ever get fixed???]
Also, why not use the technique The Great Suspender used (only available or
Chrome)? Instead of a new tab to suspend the last one, it was able to suspend in place.... much more elegant and does not create new tabs.
[EDIT: Jan 28, 2023 - Meanwhile, I just figured out a workaround to stop the discarded tabs from re-loading under the above use-case... When discarding the last tab loaded, Auto Tab Discard opens a "blank" tab page to accomplish this. But AFTER such a discarded tab reloads, that tab/page automatically closes again and the discarded tab reloads. SO AFTER that tab reloads (and the blank tab is closed), simply press COMMAND-SHIFT-T. This will bring back the blank page and discard the last tab again. BUT THIS TIME the discarded tab WILL discarded.
This might give a clue on how to fix this?
999 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by trouncedbuffer, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Reigar, 11 days agoUsing with Firefox 151.0.1 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 22.3 with 16 Gb of ram. Generally run about 15 tabs, with many known for eating ram (e.g., voice.google.com). On average, app will reduce consumed amount of ram from 5 gb, down to 2 gb if all tabs are asleep "aka discarded". very much worth it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19964793, 11 days agoSO FAR SO GOOD, WORKED IMMEDIATELY "OUT OF THE BOX" WISH WE COULD WHITELIST LEFT ALIGNED PAGE FORMAT VS JUSTIFIED FORMAT. THAT'S JUST A LITTLE NUANCE, BUT THE REST IS GREAT👍
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15459527, 23 days agounstable and can cause leak memory, abandoned extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by KevK, a month agoNice, useful feature to reduce PC resources with many open tabs.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eksitus, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mabelliot, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joan Lara, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by affection, 2 months agoI use this extension regulary and its the best out there it doesnt get in the way and the shortcut for relaoading all tabs in the current window is superb. will contribute in the near future.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Psyboyo, 2 months agoAuto Tab Discard:
Amazing, it works really well no need to configure. Using since 2021. - Rated 5 out of 5by rado84, 2 months agoI've only used this extension for 5 minutes and I already love it! Surprisingly, it still works, despite that the last update was 4 years ago. I installed it only because of this option: "Allows for the forced discarding of specified hostnames". And it works better than expected! It doesn't allow opening tabs leading to a specific site. Not just "open and then autoclose the tab", as I thought it would. It plain and simple doesn't allow the tab to be created! <3
Thanks you for creating this awesome extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by sudakaloko, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vinceHi, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Sulanco, 2 months agoPoderia ter uma interface mais amigável, mas fora a isso funciona bem
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14026712, 2 months agoLove how it puts a sleep sign on inactive tabs, but when opening a sleeping tab I don't have to click again on the page to open it, the page opens automatically. Well done!
- Rated 5 out of 5by InnovAIte, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15275344, 2 months agoExcelente extensión. Ha liberado el procesador y la ram rápidamente, y tiene muchas opciones para poder configurarla a tu gusto. La recomiendo totalmente. Es brillante. Gracias a su desarrollador, y al equipo que la hace posible.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Giraldi, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14723065, 3 months ago