Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 18613498
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 18613498, 3 months agoThis extension is nothing short of revolutionary for heavy browser users like me. As someone who regularly juggles dozens, sometimes hundreds, of tabs across multiple Firefox windows, I've experienced firsthand the strain this puts on system resources. With only 16GB of RAM on my Mac, I often found myself teetering on the edge of 80-90% memory usage, a situation that even dedicated memory cleaning apps struggled to alleviate for more than a few seconds
Unbelievable Performance
Auto Tab Discard is on a whole different level than other tab management solutions I've tried.
• Dramatic Memory Reduction: With around 50 tabs open, the extension's impact was immediately noticeable. However, the true test came when I pushed it to the limit .
• Handling Hundreds of Tabs: Upon opening hundreds of tabs across several Firefox windows, my system's memory usage skyrocketed to 90%. Activating Auto Tab Discard resulted in an astonishing drop to 53% memory usage - a level that remained stable!! What?! ?
• Consistent Performance: Even after adding another 80 tabs in a new window and starting a YouTube video, the extension managed to keep memory usage hovering around 50%.
In my opinion, if you are a power user and struggle with browser & memory issues from having tons of tabs open, this extension’s ability to dramatically reduce memory consumption while maintaining a smooth browsing experience will shock you. At least, it has shocked me. It has fundamentally changed how I manage my browser workflow, allowing me to keep numerous tabs open without sacrificing system performance. Frankly, I’m gobsmacked.
Unbelievable Performance
Auto Tab Discard is on a whole different level than other tab management solutions I've tried.
• Dramatic Memory Reduction: With around 50 tabs open, the extension's impact was immediately noticeable. However, the true test came when I pushed it to the limit .
• Handling Hundreds of Tabs: Upon opening hundreds of tabs across several Firefox windows, my system's memory usage skyrocketed to 90%. Activating Auto Tab Discard resulted in an astonishing drop to 53% memory usage - a level that remained stable!! What?! ?
• Consistent Performance: Even after adding another 80 tabs in a new window and starting a YouTube video, the extension managed to keep memory usage hovering around 50%.
In my opinion, if you are a power user and struggle with browser & memory issues from having tons of tabs open, this extension’s ability to dramatically reduce memory consumption while maintaining a smooth browsing experience will shock you. At least, it has shocked me. It has fundamentally changed how I manage my browser workflow, allowing me to keep numerous tabs open without sacrificing system performance. Frankly, I’m gobsmacked.
899 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Or Schiro, 3 days agoLifesaver if you are working with dozens of tabs and tab groups.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13529995, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 12 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共恶魔, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13709385, 17 days agoYeah, apparently abandonware. Will NOT unload pinned tabs at browser startup, and no update since 2022. Three years? Come on!
- Rated 3 out of 5by GLOBBY, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sincerfor, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12564846, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ugarov, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15037318, a month ago---TO THE DEVELOPER:
CHECK THE 1 STAR REVIEWS, AS IT SEEMS THAT THIS ADDON DOES NOT WORK AS IT SHOULD? - Rated 5 out of 5by voskresenie, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Raj Roy, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dasdasda, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by simper66, a month agoThanks, thanks and thank, i was going to do it by myself because the rest of them are over complicated or under functional. I would have ended doing it more or less the same.
I miss a couple of things.
1/ A button or something to discard all new tabs opened since X time ago until now.
2/The opposite, something to start discarding all new tabs opened since right now until X time in the future, or until idle user detected or explicitly deactivated or similar.
3/ The auto trash is great but i strongly miss an option to send the tabs to somewhere before trashing them. A bookmark folder or wherever.
4/ Something to see what is happening under the hoods. Nothing special. Basically how much tabs are in the deactivation queue to see the speed of the thing.
5/ A panic mode. I mean, deactivating or even blocking you opening new tabs when certain thresholds are meet. This feature would be a killer. Cause you know, there is a no return point when the system freeze and it is too late to do anything.
Well, thanks again.
EDIT:
I guess another feature, a bit strange, but would be a killer, at least for me.
Imagine you are in duckduckgo searching for some python stuff and you open 30 related tabs. I would like to open all of them deactivated but the very first 5, and after reading and closing one of these opened ones, begin loading automatically one of the deactivated ones so i don't have to wait for it when reached.
A kind of "OPEN DEACTIVATED, BUT (X), AND TRY KEEP ACTIVE (Y) LEFT AND/OR RIGHT
Perhaps with the option of autoactivate a tab in the same domain? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18596858, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Avacado, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by iamdosgod, 2 months agogreat extension , i am using this extension over 2 years and my main reason switching from chrome to firefox
- Rated 4 out of 5by FFReviewAccount, 2 months agoGreat addon to save your computer resources. Low on RAM or want to cut back your CPU usage, try this addon. Will suspend tabs in the background, freeing up RAM and using less CPU resources.
4/5 stars because there is one small bug that if you click on a discarded tab right after it's discarded, the page will fail to load. Fixed by a quick refresh. - Rated 5 out of 5by EarOfWheat, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 依云, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Drafer, 2 months agoIt has to be set every time you start Firefox, a waste of time and NOT WORKS