#4.36 / 25 rate

Sloth

1,000 users

2019-08-27

HRJ

This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

Automatically discards all tabs at startup, before they load, reducing memory footprint and unnecessary bandwidth usage.

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Xa*****

I have 7 windows with more than 600 tabs opened total. The whole point of adding this extensions is to have a quick restart of the browser, and to have one with low memory usage as only the active tabs of those windows would be loaded. When looking at the task manager it seems this extension opens a gorillion of new tab pages in the background, each with their google.com subframe, even when told not to in options. Those are loaded instead of the pages I have opened, but this makes the browser slower to start up and those use 600MB memory which is more than the pages loaded from the background used. Completely the opposite of what one wants, and it's clear this wasn't tested with more than 500 idle tabs opened, which would be a reason to want an extension like this.