Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
920 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15185247, 6 years agoUnintelligible. The word DISCARD is in no way synonymous with PAUSE. They have completely different meanings. Developer needs to read a dictionary. So what exactly does this do? After "discarding" does the tab still appear? If you select the tab, does it "un-PAUSE" ???
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14731527, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Traumflug, 6 years agoWith some settings adjustments (e.g. raising the discard delay to more like an hour than just a few minutes) this module works just great. Using it I managed to tame Firefox' memory consumption enough to make it a stable browser again.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14403620, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Chris Skipio, 6 years agoThis is great so far! I wish I could visit a tab without it "un-discarding" itself though. I can do this with a Chrome extension and it's nice when you're trying to find a tab. This extension makes me need to "re-discard" for each wrong tab I searched in.
- Rated 5 out of 5by kjbaumga, 6 years agoI categorize this add-on as *essential*, at least for people who use more than a handful of tabs, and/or who don't like wasted RAM. **Ever since installing this, it's as though I installed another 2 GB of RAM. ** It should be built in to Firefox. I wrote angry letters to Firefox about their reckless waste of RAM, and even suggested they free up memory exactly as this add-on does. Firefox is nasty -- it will keep on using RAM till there's 98% memory in use and the whole machine grinds to a halt. I was on the verge of abandoning Firefox over this. No installation of FF is complete without this functionality.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ChuckDub, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510507, 6 years agoThis add-on makes my 7-year-old laptop not hang anymore. Now I can wait for the Ryzen 3000 price drop after the initial launch. Thanks bro
- Rated 5 out of 5by nosachev, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15045205, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by The Great Quux, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Saikat Kundu, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14289733, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Yinmin, 6 years agoOnly discards some tabs.
The toolbar icon also appears blank on first click and only refreshes by mouse-over. - Rated 5 out of 5by Gideon Guillen, 6 years agoIt's good. Works almost like The Great Suspender for Chrom(e/ium).
- Rated 5 out of 5by AndyL964, 6 years agoAmazing add-on! Lots of options to customize it to your liking as well.
Literally saved my laptop. Now I can continue hoarding tabs like I usually do without the laptop slowing down to the point where it would take forever to do anything :D - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13873818, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14984101, 6 years agoI have the same issue with my Bookmark Bar's FAV-Icons. Already three of them changed to the Auto Tab Discard Suspended status icons with the dot. How do I get the old FAV-Icons back and when will this issue going to be fixed? Until then I need to disable the Addon.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dypsis, 6 years agoMany of my Bookmarks have the discarded favicon permanently. I have tried removing the Bookmarks, and re-adding them, but it continues to display the faded favicons with the dot. I have tried clearing cache and even uninstalling this extension. How do I fix it? Edit: I have had to disable this extension for now before it screws all my favicons up. And Mozilla has this listed as a "Featured Extension". I am now using Dormancy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by sugigu, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ProfRoubaix, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amber, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by mediaklan, 6 years agoNot bad, but far to be as great as was tab suspender, from the same author. Clicking a discarded tab will auto undiscard it, which is a major drawback compared to tab suspender which had an option to prevent that. No more toolbar icon to get the suspend menu options. And more annoying : discarding a tab will get you switched to another tab, but without any options to control this behavior. On the pro side : from what I notice, this extension is more effective than tab suspender in terms of perfs and memory reduction usage.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mail43, 6 years ago