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Memory Saver

by IeraciSoft

v1.6 Updated Jun 10, 2024 13.64KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 3.60
35 reviews
#5376
of 207.1K
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#1645 of 31.8K
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

Lightweight extension that reduces Chrome's memory usage by putting inactive tabs to sleep. Using Chrome's built in tab discarding feature, when a tab is inactive or system memory critically low, the extension discards the background tabs freeing up memory. Once you switch the focus to the sleeping tab, it gets automatically reloaded. Tabs playing audio or video won't be put to sleep. === Main Features=== Tabs are put to sleep when not in use for 10 minutes (the interval can be customized in the settings). Tabs are put to sleep when system memory is low. The extension will set a default low memory threshold depending by the total amount of system memory. This value can be customized. The extension will periodically check the amount of free system memory. This interval is set by default to 5 minutes and can be customized. ========================= CHANGE LOG ============================= v.1.6 : support for V3 manifest and small bug fixes
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Reviews (13 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-19
Dank Memer

Bro i installed it then closed all my tabs and i could even change the settings and it conviniently happend after I installed the extension.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-08
Hasan Mansour

Worst extension ever. Closed all my tabs before I could adjust any settings and completely deleted them, couldn't restore them through the extension or with Ctrl+Shift+T before or after uninstalling it.

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-27
Dan S

This extension was the cause of not being able to open links to in new tabs (command-click links). I had to disable all my extensions to figure out which app was causing this annoying problem and it turned put to be this. So writing this review as a warning to other users who might be experiencing this problem.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-08
SenusSuns (Hydracoil)

Useless extension. I had tabs I didn't want to snooze and I installed this thinking I could customize it but instead all it did was snooze all my tabs and ruined everything. DO NOT INSTALL!

★★☆☆☆2026-03-11
The Spud Lord

Does nothing to help with memory leaks

★★☆☆☆2026-02-23
張育誠

Yes This Plugin does free up memory. but if your browser stay active for a long time it somehow eat up more memory than before. my memory usage is 2.2GB before this plugin and 0.8 ~ 1.2GB after the plugin with the risk of eat up all the memory

★★☆☆☆2025-09-01
Benjamin Reed

Leaving a bad review because the dev doesn't seem too polite in the reviews.

★★★☆☆2024-08-21
Ravindu Goonewardena

So there's a problem with this extension where selecting to open a link in new tab just returns an about:blank page this started happening recently if that helps No other problems so far

★★★☆☆2023-09-01
Rant

I'm using windows 7 still, and i just love the old comodo dragon because of its lite use of memory even when opening many tabs in Youtube. (i've open at least 10 tabs of Youtube and less than 1GD ram usage). with this memory saver, i realized when you try opening another link to a new tab, the tab goes blank. Maybe the developer can do something about it? i know and understand its old and outdated versions i'm using if they are not willing. Seems to help a bit with the memory i would think this extension.

★★★☆☆2023-01-07
Meghan and Tyler Meszaros

Although this app used to be necessary, Chrome now has this feature built in. Go to settings and then performance.

★★★☆☆2022-05-01
Ryan Chang

When opening a website in a new tab by clicking on a hyperlink with the middle mouse button or right click > open in new tab, an about:blank screen appears instead of the website.

★★★☆☆2022-02-11
Mark Solomon

Does what it suppose to do but buggy. Breaks open in new tab. Seems inconsistent as to which tabs to discard.

★★★☆☆2022-02-09
Kevin Pinel

Need it to leave pinned tabs alone. I think most of us pin tabs for a reason. Be nice to have a bit more configurability in it so that users can set exclusions if pinned tabs aren't going to be excluded

Permissions (3)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks storage Can store data locally in your browser system.memory

Details

Version 1.6
Updated Jun 10, 2024
Size 13.64KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026