Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 15238948
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15238948, 2 years agoThis is exactly what I've been wanting! I've been fighting the Firefox memory hog for much too long, needing to close and restart Firefox multiple times per day. The built-in tab unload options didn't seem to do anything, or maybe not enough. It took me just one day using Auto Tab Discard to get in the habit of whenever I'm finished with a tab but don't want to close it, I right click on the tab, click Auto Tab Discard, and Discard Tab. That keeps my memory usage at bay. I also keep an about:unloads tab open and periodically check to see if I should manually unload a tab that I missed. Unfortunately, you can only unload from the top down, not selectively. But in combination with Auto Tab Discard, I now have no reason to abandon Firefox, which I was thinking of doing. Firefox REALLY needs to have a native way to control memory usage that actually works! (Note: I also use the Simple Tab Groups extension and keep dozens of tabs available for easy access, so Auto Tab Discard works great with Simple Tab Groups.)
919 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18939808, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659584, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18862493, 3 days agoI'm a little bit of a tab hoarder... And that results in all of my 32GB of RAM filling up all the time. Then I need to close the browser and open it again, to free up my RAM. My next planned step before knowing about this extension was to buy more RAM.
But this extension fixes the problem. All tabs that are not used just get their resources freed after some time. How this is not a standard feature in Firefox baffles me... So it goes without saying; This is a great extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18576703, 9 days agoHeavily reduced the energy and performance being used by all the tabs I have open, highly recommended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maximilian Grothusmann, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKM, 24 days agoI've found Auto Tab Discard very useful for many years. It keeps my browser running smooth, even when I've got upwards of 400 tabs open.
PostScript: Yes, I know I have an open tabs problem - Rated 5 out of 5by Roma Gromov, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IonuțAlex18, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oz, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by trav1295, a month agoEverything works for me (that I've set it up for) except the option to discard pinned tabs on startup. Logs just say it's not ready. But, this add-on seems to be abandoned atm :(
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ronak, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Abdullah Shah, a month agoBrilliant app. Life saver for computers having low ram installed. Best across the board.
- Rated 5 out of 5by DaemonCipher, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14119405, 2 months agoAll new tabs crash with this extension now. If the add-on won't be updated, there's no point in continuing to use it
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheZupZup, 2 months agoi would just like to know when a update will be made because it's been 2 years
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mad_dog, 2 months agoAwesome extension. Very useful for managing sleeping tabs automatically and/or manually.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18854398, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FA, 2 months agoFantastic add-on. One feature request though - could you add the ability to not automatically reload the tab when viewing a discarded tab. In other words, if I click on a discarded tab, it should show a "discarded tab" page and only when I "click" on the page should it load. The reason is that lots of time I accidentally switch to a discarded tab and then it loads the tab when I really wanted it to stay discarded. This is a feature that the Marvellous Suspender has and I think it would be a great feature addition here.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17932648, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Acuber12, 2 months ago