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?
930 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Bednarski, 3 days agoIt works very well and what I like most is that the add-on behavior is very customizable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SuperPlasmaPea1, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18694712, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leo, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SleepyEvie, 18 days agoits like marvellous suspender for chromium browsers but works better in every single way (for me). I had a lot of time consuming issues with various suspender versions after the official one died and swapped to firefox a few months ago, this one JUST WORKS! big fan.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19057546, 20 days agoI can now play while having 70+ tabs, very simple, nice, useful, thanks!!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by ckrysiak, 23 days agoworks fine for the most part, but as of a couple days ago youtube tabs won't automatically discard any more when first opened, which is what I mainly use this for. Other than that I've not had any other real problems with this.
Edit: I originally gave this a three star review for the above issue, but it turns out Auto Tab Discard is interacting with UBlock Origin in a weird way and it's only when UBlock is active that I have this problem. Not really much I can do about it, but also not really the fault of this addon, so I bumped the rating up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16891909, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by luckyfetus, a month agoGreat idea! Unfortunately, it doesn't function or work properly as of June 6 2025
- Rated 5 out of 5by default-design, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Al, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wahab, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MOMO, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15269461, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Terrasse, 2 months 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, 2 months 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 Maximilian Grothusmann, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKM, 3 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