![]() ![]() ![]() You keep a tab open that you reference frequently through your work.You are keeping a tab open to reference later.Suspending tabs is just a quick temporary fix. Tab Suspenders are great, but they do not address the root cause of why chrome and our work actually slow down: too many tabs open. Let’s first look at how Tab Managers are different from Tab Suspenders. Use a Tab Manager, specifically designed to help you, well, manage tabs. So, how can we break this habit, get more organized, and work effectively in the browser? The problem with this however, is that it addresses the issue from the surface level consequence -a slower browser- and not the root cause, too many tabs open. Then came along Tab Suspenders: A seemingly perfect solution to your problem! Just enable a tab suspender/snoozer and it will automatically unload the tabs you aren’t using in order to reduce memory usage in chrome - all unimportant technical information that amounts to chrome pretends like that tab isn’t open so that you can use your computer as if you had less tabs open. You are trying to get some work done in the browser and you inevitably accumulate too many tabs, start virtually running in circles, and don’t get any work done. Will you need the tab later? Will you be able to find it later? Will you even remember it?Įveryone has faced this problem. It is also a heavy psychological burden because you don’t know what to do about the tabs. Having too many tabs open is a major distraction, makes it hard to get to the resources you really need, and of course slows us down. The most common problem users face when using chrome (In fact any browser) is that they eventually accumulate too many tabs and their computer - and work as a product of this - slows down. Tab Suspenders and Tab Snoozers, and why you don’t need themĬhrome is the most widely used browser. In fact, if you do your work in the browser, you shouldn’t have to flip through 100s of tabs just to get some work done.Ī Tab Suspender is a browser extension that ‘suspends’ (Removes from the browsers current active working memory) tabs in order to save your computer’s RAM (Its relatively available resources).Ī Tab Manager is a browser extension, app, or both that are designed to help you organize and manage your work in the browser. Managing tabs in a browser doesn’t have to suck. Address the problem at its root and get organized. In the meantime, the community has forked the last malware-free version of The Great Suspender to create The Marvellous Suspender, which is available now on the Chrome Web Store.If you have so many tabs open that your computer is slowing down, you don’t need a tab suspender or tab snoozer - you need a tab manager. In this case, your missing tab was for “https ://It’s unknown if this malware issue will see The Great Suspender permanently removed from the Chrome Web Store, or if it will be restored in time. &uri=https ://At the end, after “uri=” is the URL of your missing suspended tab. Simply open chrome://history - you can also open this by pressing Ctrl-H in Chrome - and searching for The Great Suspender’s extension ID: “klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg.” Each result should be a tab you had suspended, and at the end of each URL is the URL of the page you were looking for.įor example, a suspended tab may have a URL like this:Ĭhrome-extension ://klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/suspended.html Luckily, the extension’s community has found a way to potentially uncover your lost tabs. Unfortunately, for those who were active users of The Great Suspender, this forced disabling of the extension has caused any suspended tabs to be closed and effectively lost. Further, anyone who previously had The Great Suspender installed in Chrome has had the extension forcibly disabled by Chrome. This afternoon, Google seems to have enforced a removal of The Great Suspender for containing malware, delisting the extension from the Chrome Web Store. This exploit led the extension to be removed from Microsoft Edge’s extensions marketplace, but The Great Suspender was allowed to stay on the Chrome Web Store as a later update reportedly removed the exploit. Subsequently, with version 7.1.8, The Great Suspender added an exploit that could be used to run almost any kind of code on your computer without your knowledge. Last year, as explained in-depth by TheMageKing, the development of The Great Suspender changed hands and was subsequently sold to an unknown third party. The Great Suspender is - or perhaps was - an extension that forced your excess tabs to sleep, helping to keep Chrome from using too much RAM and other resources. ![]() This afternoon, Google has delisted the popular extension The Great Suspender for containing malware and is proactively disabling the extension for those who have it. ![]()
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