Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by robsku
Rated 4 out of 5
by robsku, 5 years agoThis is a great extension - I finally had to find a similar extension to BarTab that I used to use before the webextension thingy when my laptop with 20GiB finally used up all the RAM, most of the swap space and slowed my system to crawl until I could free some of it... After installing this the memory use has dropped to a fraction of what it used to be. I started with the default settings, then after most my tabs were discarded I set the time before tabs get auto-discarded to much higher.
One request I have - if possible, could you make this extension to work with TST (Tree Style Tab) extension, so that if it detects TST it will show discarded tabs like it does on regular tab bar (which I've hidden because it's kinda redundant with TST)? That would be most awesome! Also you could add TST-specific features, such as "discard this tab tree", etc.
I would definitely add a star to my review for that! =)
One request I have - if possible, could you make this extension to work with TST (Tree Style Tab) extension, so that if it detects TST it will show discarded tabs like it does on regular tab bar (which I've hidden because it's kinda redundant with TST)? That would be most awesome! Also you could add TST-specific features, such as "discard this tab tree", etc.
I would definitely add a star to my review for that! =)
938 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17628517, 2 days agoGood, but firefox now has built-in tab discard/unload feature, so in fact you don't need this anymore.
- Rated 5 out of 5by nerve static, 5 days agoReally helps conserve RAM and my aging device. Thanks! God Bless
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nick, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by deigue, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19134316, 18 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by caam, 18 days agoWorks like it should.
The settings are a bit complicated.
I could have the option to have more than one set of criteria, before closing tabs. Eg. closing tabs after 20 min, when having more than 10 open, but also closing tabs after 10 min, when having more than 25 open. - Rated 5 out of 5by Artem, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Bednarski, a month agoIt works very well and what I like most is that the add-on behavior is very customizable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SuperPlasmaPea1, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18694712, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leo, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SleepyEvie, 2 months agoits like marvellous suspender for chromium browsers but works better in every single way (for me). I had a lot of time consuming issues with various suspender versions after the official one died and swapped to firefox a few months ago, this one JUST WORKS! big fan.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19057546, 2 months agoI can now play while having 70+ tabs, very simple, nice, useful, thanks!!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by ckrysiak, 2 months agoworks fine for the most part, but as of a couple days ago youtube tabs won't automatically discard any more when first opened, which is what I mainly use this for. Other than that I've not had any other real problems with this.
Edit: I originally gave this a three star review for the above issue, but it turns out Auto Tab Discard is interacting with UBlock Origin in a weird way and it's only when UBlock is active that I have this problem. Not really much I can do about it, but also not really the fault of this addon, so I bumped the rating up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16891909, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by luckyfetus, 2 months agoGreat idea! Unfortunately, it doesn't function or work properly as of June 6 2025
- Rated 5 out of 5by default-design, 2 months agoAz újabb Firefox nem kezeli jól a memóriát és elképesztően sokat zabál (belőle) így aki úgy használja amiben ez a böngésző eredetileg a legjobb volt, tehát sok ablak = lap = fül = tab akkor ez neki való mert az inaktívak nem használnak memóriát és így végre újra a régi az élmény.
- Rated 5 out of 5by gagatek, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Al, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wahab, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MOMO, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15269461, 3 months ago