Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by smayer97
Rated 2 out of 5
by smayer97, 3 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?
919 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by MOMO, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15269461, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Terrasse, 6 days 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, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659584, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18862493, 18 days 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, 24 days agoHeavily reduced the energy and performance being used by all the tabs I have open, highly recommended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maximilian Grothusmann, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKM, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IonuțAlex18, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oz, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by trav1295, 2 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Abdullah Shah, 2 months agoBrilliant app. Life saver for computers having low ram installed. Best across the board.
- Rated 5 out of 5by DaemonCipher, 2 months agoWorks great but development seems dead? Last updated 2 years ago as of this post.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14119405, 2 months agoAll new tabs crash with this extension now. If the add-on won't be updated, there's no point in continuing to use it
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheZupZup, 2 months agoi would just like to know when a update will be made because it's been 2 years
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mad_dog, 2 months agoAwesome extension. Very useful for managing sleeping tabs automatically and/or manually.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18854398, 2 months ago