Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 15238948
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15238948, 8 months 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.)
825 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tuana, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joe, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seikikai, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dustin, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Pete, a month agoNot sure whether it is working or not.
Even after discarding most of the open tabs
(~150 ), I couldn't see any noticeable memory usage reduction....
Could someone give some numbers (bytes or percentage)
of memory amount recovered after discard of a (big enough,
for to be trustworthy) number of tabs? - Rated 5 out of 5by Some1else{}, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AAAAAA, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by -= Cara =-, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17717340, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by alfred, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sleepwalker, 2 months agoThere is no other way for me to open 20 youtube tabs without lagging.
- Rated 5 out of 5by J. Ryan Stinnett, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben, 2 months agoSimple and works well, loaded with settings/preferences so you can really fine-tune it's behavior the way you want it. Awesome!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17943208, 2 months agoWorks super well, makes my Mac run 10x smoother on heavy browser load.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sam Tuke, 2 months agoGame-changer - transforms the performance of my high powered laptop (128GB RAM)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13469189, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by some guy, 2 months agoWorks, but if I maximize/fullscreen a window over discarded tabs they all release when that window minimizes/resizes
- Rated 4 out of 5by magmen3, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by thugcee, 2 months ago