The Great Suspender - A Chrome Extension That Puts Unused Tabs To Sleep
If you are into web development and especially front-end development, chances are high that you favourite browser is Google Chrome because of its simple and elegant development tools options. In fact, a study has shown that Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. But despite its popularity, one of its most palpable and frustrating drawbacks is that it is very slow as compared to its counterparts like Firefox and Safari. Realizing this, the Chrome developers have now introduced a workaround so that the browser can work at maximum possible speed.
Most of us have multiple tabs open on a browser. More often than not, the tabs are such that we don’t visit them often. However, we keep them open to reduce the access time of the website. However, what we don’t realize is that these unused but still open tabs consume memory and processing speed of your device and thus slows down Chrome until it finally crashes. What Chrome has done is that it is now providing an extension dramatically named ‘The Great Suspender’.
This Great Suspender will suspend the tabs that are open on the browser but are currently not being used. It completely suspends the webpage on the unused tab making sure that no JavaScript is running and thus no memory and no processing power is being unnecessarily being consumed. This memory and processing power is now available to work on the open tab thus providing a better speed. The webpage can be restored by clicking anywhere on a page.
Here is the best part about the extension. The extension provides a freedom to choose that for how long a tab should be suspended. Users can select to never suspend pinned tabs and tabs with incomplete forms. Not only that, the users can select to ‘whitelist’ certain tabs so that they aren’t suspended under any condition. Even though are a lot of possible improvements but this initiative by Chrome might turn to be very handy. The extension is already available on the #-Link-Snipped-# and can be downloaded for free.
Via: <a href="https://www.techtimes.com/articles/54024/20150519/chrome-extension-people-who-keep-multiple-open-tabs.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Chrome Extension Is Perfect For People Who Keep Multiple Tabs Open | Tech Times</a>
Most of us have multiple tabs open on a browser. More often than not, the tabs are such that we don’t visit them often. However, we keep them open to reduce the access time of the website. However, what we don’t realize is that these unused but still open tabs consume memory and processing speed of your device and thus slows down Chrome until it finally crashes. What Chrome has done is that it is now providing an extension dramatically named ‘The Great Suspender’.
This Great Suspender will suspend the tabs that are open on the browser but are currently not being used. It completely suspends the webpage on the unused tab making sure that no JavaScript is running and thus no memory and no processing power is being unnecessarily being consumed. This memory and processing power is now available to work on the open tab thus providing a better speed. The webpage can be restored by clicking anywhere on a page.
Here is the best part about the extension. The extension provides a freedom to choose that for how long a tab should be suspended. Users can select to never suspend pinned tabs and tabs with incomplete forms. Not only that, the users can select to ‘whitelist’ certain tabs so that they aren’t suspended under any condition. Even though are a lot of possible improvements but this initiative by Chrome might turn to be very handy. The extension is already available on the #-Link-Snipped-# and can be downloaded for free.
Via: <a href="https://www.techtimes.com/articles/54024/20150519/chrome-extension-people-who-keep-multiple-open-tabs.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Chrome Extension Is Perfect For People Who Keep Multiple Tabs Open | Tech Times</a>
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