Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by smayer97
Rated 2 out of 5
by 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?
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?
827 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13848868, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by uni cat, 9 days agoIt's very great, but I just wish it could close all the discarded tabs automatically (if possible)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tuana, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joe, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seikikai, a month 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 =-, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17717340, 2 months 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, 3 months agoWorks, but if I maximize/fullscreen a window over discarded tabs they all release when that window minimizes/resizes