Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by taco
Rated 5 out of 5
by taco, 4 years agoLoving the addon so far ! Been using it for months now and had zero bugs, it has simply just worked 100% of the time, which is amazing.
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
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- Rated 5 out of 5by cheng, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Habibi, 15 days agoExcellent, it works well for me! It is a useful extension; thus, I always use it. Thanks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by trouncedbuffer, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Reigar, 24 days agoUsing with Firefox 151.0.1 (64-bit) on Linux Mint 22.3 with 16 Gb of ram. Generally run about 15 tabs, with many known for eating ram (e.g., voice.google.com). On average, app will reduce consumed amount of ram from 5 gb, down to 2 gb if all tabs are asleep "aka discarded". very much worth it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19964793, 24 days agoSO FAR SO GOOD, WORKED IMMEDIATELY "OUT OF THE BOX" WISH WE COULD WHITELIST LEFT ALIGNED PAGE FORMAT VS JUSTIFIED FORMAT. THAT'S JUST A LITTLE NUANCE, BUT THE REST IS GREAT👍
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15459527, a month agounstable and can cause leak memory, abandoned extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by KevK, a month agoNice, useful feature to reduce PC resources with many open tabs.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eksitus, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mabelliot, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joan Lara, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by affection, 2 months agoI use this extension regulary and its the best out there it doesnt get in the way and the shortcut for relaoading all tabs in the current window is superb. will contribute in the near future.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Psyboyo, 2 months agoAuto Tab Discard:
Amazing, it works really well no need to configure. Using since 2021. - Rated 5 out of 5by rado84, 2 months agoI've only used this extension for 5 minutes and I already love it! Surprisingly, it still works, despite that the last update was 4 years ago. I installed it only because of this option: "Allows for the forced discarding of specified hostnames". And it works better than expected! It doesn't allow opening tabs leading to a specific site. Not just "open and then autoclose the tab", as I thought it would. It plain and simple doesn't allow the tab to be created! <3
Thanks you for creating this awesome extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by sudakaloko, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vinceHi, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Sulanco, 3 months agoPoderia ter uma interface mais amigável, mas fora a isso funciona bem
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14026712, 3 months agoLove how it puts a sleep sign on inactive tabs, but when opening a sleeping tab I don't have to click again on the page to open it, the page opens automatically. Well done!
- Rated 5 out of 5by InnovAIte, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15275344, 3 months agoExcelente extensión. Ha liberado el procesador y la ram rápidamente, y tiene muchas opciones para poder configurarla a tu gusto. La recomiendo totalmente. Es brillante. Gracias a su desarrollador, y al equipo que la hace posible.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Giraldi, 3 months ago