rNeomy/auto-tab-discard

Use native tab discarding method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs

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Auto Tab Discard

A browser extension which uses the native tab discarding method (chrome.tabs.discard) to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. This extension is more efficient and should be less buggy compared to the alternatives extensions that use DOM replacement method.

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Daniel Hahler

575 followers · starred Mar 2020

Kirill Müller

1,108 followers · starred Aug 2024

ygrek

130 followers · starred Jul 2021

Andrew Gaul

317 followers · starred Mar 2019

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