Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 15238948
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15238948, 2 years agoThis is exactly what I've been wanting! I've been fighting the Firefox memory hog for much too long, needing to close and restart Firefox multiple times per day. The built-in tab unload options didn't seem to do anything, or maybe not enough. It took me just one day using Auto Tab Discard to get in the habit of whenever I'm finished with a tab but don't want to close it, I right click on the tab, click Auto Tab Discard, and Discard Tab. That keeps my memory usage at bay. I also keep an about:unloads tab open and periodically check to see if I should manually unload a tab that I missed. Unfortunately, you can only unload from the top down, not selectively. But in combination with Auto Tab Discard, I now have no reason to abandon Firefox, which I was thinking of doing. Firefox REALLY needs to have a native way to control memory usage that actually works! (Note: I also use the Simple Tab Groups extension and keep dozens of tabs available for easy access, so Auto Tab Discard works great with Simple Tab Groups.)
923 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by luckyfetus, a day agoGreat idea! Unfortunately, it doesn't function or work properly as of June 6 2025
- Rated 5 out of 5by default-design, 10 days agoAz újabb Firefox nem kezeli jól a memóriát és elképesztően sokat zabál (belőle) így aki úgy használja amiben ez a böngésző eredetileg a legjobb volt, tehát sok ablak = lap = fül = tab akkor ez neki való mert az inaktívak nem használnak memóriát és így végre újra a régi az élmény.
- Rated 5 out of 5by gagatek, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Al, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wahab, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MOMO, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15269461, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Terrasse, a month agoVery good work! This extension effectively reduces the RAM usage. Among all these extensions with similar function, Auto Tab Discard works best and is the most configurable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18939808, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659584, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18862493, 2 months agoI'm a little bit of a tab hoarder... And that results in all of my 32GB of RAM filling up all the time. Then I need to close the browser and open it again, to free up my RAM. My next planned step before knowing about this extension was to buy more RAM.
But this extension fixes the problem. All tabs that are not used just get their resources freed after some time. How this is not a standard feature in Firefox baffles me... So it goes without saying; This is a great extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18576703, 2 months agoHeavily reduced the energy and performance being used by all the tabs I have open, highly recommended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maximilian Grothusmann, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKM, 2 months agoI've found Auto Tab Discard very useful for many years. It keeps my browser running smooth, even when I've got upwards of 400 tabs open.
PostScript: Yes, I know I have an open tabs problem - Rated 5 out of 5by Roma Gromov, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IonuțAlex18, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oz, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by trav1295, 3 months agoEverything works for me (that I've set it up for) except the option to discard pinned tabs on startup. Logs just say it's not ready. But, this add-on seems to be abandoned atm :(
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ronak, 3 months ago