

In short, if your computer is low on memory, Chrome will automatically “discard” the contents of “uninteresting” tabs. This is a “memory-saving” feature, as Google puts it. They’re related features, but do different things in different situations. That’s why Chrome’s engineers created Tab Discarding and, now, Tab Freezing. If you have a large number of tabs open-or even just a small number of tabs containing heavy web pages-they can use a lot of system resources, filling up your memory, taking up CPU cycles, making Chrome less responsive, and draining your battery. When you switch back to it, you don’t need to wait for the web page to reload-it’s instant.īut it can be bad. In some ways, this is good: Even if you switch tabs, a tab can continue playing audio or updating itself in the background. Any scripts and other active content on it continue running, too, which means the web page can use CPU resources in the background.

Even while you’re not using them, each tab you have open in Chrome contains an open web page. Seems like you are the only company who may listen to users and have enough capacity to deliver this feature.If you only had a single tab open at all times, Chrome would only need to render one web page at once. Microsoft, please, implement proper tab tree support in Edge. Also on Opera you can't hide tabbar and you need to follow a complex procedure to get it working on Vivaldi.Īlso there is a Chrome extension named Sidewise ( ) but it's a real pain to use it because of Chrome's UI limitations (it's a separate window, you can't hide horizontal tabbar).
AUTO TAB SUSPENDER FIREFOX ADDON WINDOWS
The irritating thing is that I cannot dock the Tabs Outliner window with the other Edge Dev windows they have to be manually sized and sometimes seem to go out of line. It would make a good base for a Microsoft option. It has been exceedingly useful while doing family tree work, so that I can keep different lines of research apart, and even suspend them when I need to do real stuff, and return later. It can manage several different browser windows, and close them and reopen them at will, even days or weeks later. The key feature is that it can close your tabs for you, thus releasing memory and resources, yet still remember them and reopen them at will. It has an amazing set of features, and if used carefully it can be a real benefit.
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Kirk Since I last posted, and now that Edge Dev is able to use the Chrome store, I have been using Tabs Outliner, and have even paid a small sum for the full version (a few extras, but it helps encourage the developer).
