The options let you control things like how long the extension should wait before discarding inactive tabs and how many inactive tabs it takes to trigger the function. You can customize the behavior of Auto Tab Discard by clicking the “Options” button at the bottom of that menu. You can also do things like discard all inactive tabs, or discard all tabs in the current window or other windows, which is pretty handy. You can manually discard tabs by clicking the extension’s icon, and then choosing the “Discard This Tab (Forced)” option. Auto Tab Discard also remembers the scroll position of the tab, so you don’t lose your place if you were reading a long article. Once you switch over to a discarded tab, it’s made active again. RELATED: The Best Chrome Extensions for Managing Tabs

It works a lot like the popular Chrome extension, The Great Suspender. They’re just slightly dimmed and have a grey dot on them to make them easy to distinguish.

The discarded tabs are actually suspended so that they’re not using up any system resources, and are still visible in your browser window. Discarded tabs are not actually removed, though. While all browsers, including Firefox, have memory management built in, having lots of tabs open can still affect performance-in your browser and on your PC.Īuto Tab Discard solves that problem by automatically discarding tabs in the background after a user-defined interval. Just a few open tabs in Firefox can consume up to a gigabyte of memory, and it keeps rising as you open more tabs.

Auto Tab Discard: Preserve Your System ResourcesĪuto Tab Discard does not help you manage or organize your tabs, but it does help you reduce Firefox’s memory usage significantly.

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