Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by B Tang
Rated 5 out of 5
by B Tang, 2 years agoA useful extension for unloading inactive tabs from memory. They will reload again when you click on them. I use it together with the "Open Bookmarks Slowly" extension (with the "Discard all newly opened inactive tabs after they get loaded" option ticked in Auto Tab Discard options) so that when opening a folder full of many bookmarks one by one, each opened bookmark will be unloaded from memory immediately, otherwise the RAM gets used up and the computer slows down when opening many bookmarks.
973 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19793860, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16766486, 8 days agoIt stopped working a long time ago and extension is now abandoned.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12837867, 10 days agoI'm very impressed! This is the most effective way to free up RAM that I've ever seen.
- Rated 5 out of 5by aicitel, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HASJ2, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Avakining, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RogerBytes, a month agoThis extension has been a lifesaver—it helped me fix all the memory leak issues I was having on YouTube.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Anon007, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bing Chi Ling, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by OKRA, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15081822, a month agoWorks as expected. Very useful for batter life and old devices with low RAM and weak CPU.
It is must given today's badly optimized and scripts entangled mess we call a web. Not so much from security POV but at least idle means idle again. - Rated 5 out of 5by rjt, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by dima, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikolay Semennikov, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dzluck, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sunniva Løvstad, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by me, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ShoNovice, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tiny dragon, 4 months agoThis addon is beautiful and a lifesaver and I love it.
My only gripe is that the name and "discard" terminology is misleading; I'd have tried it way sooner if not for that.
A must-have extension for anyone who opens a bazillion tabs all at once, and probably even for people who only open a few (since it doesn't take all that many before Firefox begins to slow, even with fast PC).
I don't know why Firefox doesn't handle unloading tabs even half this well natively, but it really doesn't. Firefox runs so much better with this installed.
I appreciate the detailed options very much, as well. You can customize it to your liking. - Rated 5 out of 5by Cleanminds, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Evaaaales, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by anti_monopoly894, 5 months agoI wouldn't be able to always have 50+ tabs open if it wasn't for this, pretty good