Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
889 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17655676, 2 years agoSaw a noticeable drop in the amount of memory my PC was using by about 20% after installing this add-on.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jeddostotle7, 2 years agoUsually pretty good, but for the past several months now I've been having an issue where sometimes, if I click on a tab that was discarded to open it, instead of loading the actual page it was on it instead just becomes an about:blank page. It doesn't happen too often, but often enough to be annoying and make me have to be more cautious than I'd like to have to be.
- Rated 5 out of 5by DuNguyen, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17050021, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sulayman, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kira Karelin, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Threshold, 2 years agoTabs with videos being played through the pop-up window get discarded and this even after I have white-listed the domain!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alexandre, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tinywill, 2 years agoeven better than edge's offloading tabs feature, extremely useful when paired with a tab group manager
- Rated 5 out of 5by LED, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by servetier, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul B, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by manam, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by JieChen, 2 years agoIn the latest 0.6.3.2 version of this plugin, the tabs that have reached the hibernation time cannot be automatically hibernated, I returned to the 0.5 version and it was fine. I am using Firefox Developer Edition 106.0 Beta 6 (20220929195234)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ivan, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ilya, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 雷隐寺-火狐, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Trinutown, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by smayer97, 2 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? - Rated 1 out of 5by koli341, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sam, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14532424, 2 years agoBroken, whenever a tab is discarded and i click on it it goes back to the "new tab" page as if i just opened a fresh tab, also cant go back to the tab were i was with the "Go back one page" feature (the arrow)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14060522, 2 years agoGreat addon, but have to revert back to the old version temporarily because the addon doesn't work at all, including not discarding any inactive tabs after x number of minutes after updating to v.0.6.2