New Tab Suspender

A very lightweight tab suspender to suspend inactive tabs that reduces an overall memory usage of Firefox, uses a Firefox native discard API

Total ratings

4.39 (Rating count: 80)

Review summary

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Pros

Works automatically in the background
Allows for custom suspend times (from 5 seconds to 1 hour)
Noticeably lowers memory usage
Functionality is simple and effective
Has a fade effect for suspended tabs

Cons

Lacks an import/export feature for settings
Can suspend tabs with active forms, leading to loss of entered information
No option to never suspend specific domains
Some users report it not working at all
Limited visual feedback for suspended tabs (e.g., icon change)

Most mentioned

Works well for tab suspension
Issues with lost work in active forms
Desire for additional features/options
Frustration with missed settings backup/restore
Performance improvements noted by users

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User reviews

Recent rating average: 4.80

All time rating average: 4.39

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Date	Author	Comment
2024-10-12	Mochamad Adi
2024-10-08	Wharlic
2024-09-18	Emre Akar
2024-09-13	Scott Cummins (Ferby)
2024-06-30	Thomas Leon Highbaugh	This add-on does the job it sets out to do flawlessly, maybe a bit too flawlessly if you just reinstalled your browser or OS or moved to using some fork/different edition because other than saving your whitelist and settings locally (as part of the ~/.mozilla directory on Linux, macOS and Windows you are on your own but Google's your friend) but does not take advantage of Browser Sync (nor is able to be parsed automatically by it if that's even a thing, which is not something I would trust Mozilla not to turn into a dumpster fire fast like a NASCAR), does not offer a means of exporting the settings then importing them for the back-up conscious but Mozilla leery among us like myself or save its settings in a way I could at least snatch easily from my profile directory to encrypt right fast and throw on Dropbox. That means everytime I switch to a new fork/edition or crash my Linux install again and have to reinstall the OS (which in using macOS I found I also did pretty often, what can I say I like to experiment) I have to build my entire whitelist over again at the expense of tabs suspended I looked away from without checking the extension and variable amounts of work lost and years taken off of my life in the resulting fury prompting me to determine that there is no way of easily accessing, backing up and later restoring my settings to prevent that from again happening. I get why these features, from a Unix philosophy standpoint, might be merely bloat or additional complexity that means additional points of inevitable failure and hours spent working on the extension that has been otherwise feature complete the whole 6 years I have used it but at least an import/export feature to spare me the hours of lost work would have been really nice and is why I dock the one star despite otherwise being impressed with how well this add-on has held up in my otherwise constantly rotating add-on insanity that is part of my firefox web browsing experience I deeply prefer to Chrome, all of its stupid gimmicky forks (brave, edge, arc, garbage the lot of them and all too deeply tied into the ever creepier Google madness under the hood whatever half-baked privacy mitigations they pretend to have and dress up with animations) and even the functional webkit alternatives that exist, or LuaKit (because Lua > Python for configuration scripting qutebrowser is too obtuse even with the active community around it) or the terminal based options that I really want to be good but are just really awkward trash.
2024-04-19	Firefox user 17373669	It's working great! But I have a question. I often open the same tab session. There are a lot of tabs. On some of them I used the "Don't suspend this tab" option. How can I see which tabs have this option activated? Or maybe I can disable this option for all tabs at once? Thanks!
2024-04-13	Firefox user 17069354	Been using for over a year. Works automatically in the background and I've been able to have close to a hundred brower tabs which are suspended. It allows to modify the time before suspending, from 5 seconds to 1 hour. Highly recommend.
2024-02-13	Nintendo1889	this one actually works
2024-01-15	Cristian Salinas
2023-12-18	Albert

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