Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by Firefox user 18613498
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 18613498, 10 months agoThis extension is nothing short of revolutionary for heavy browser users like me. As someone who regularly juggles dozens, sometimes hundreds, of tabs across multiple Firefox windows, I've experienced firsthand the strain this puts on system resources. With only 16GB of RAM on my Mac, I often found myself teetering on the edge of 80-90% memory usage, a situation that even dedicated memory cleaning apps struggled to alleviate for more than a few seconds
Unbelievable Performance
Auto Tab Discard is on a whole different level than other tab management solutions I've tried.
• Dramatic Memory Reduction: With around 50 tabs open, the extension's impact was immediately noticeable. However, the true test came when I pushed it to the limit .
• Handling Hundreds of Tabs: Upon opening hundreds of tabs across several Firefox windows, my system's memory usage skyrocketed to 90%. Activating Auto Tab Discard resulted in an astonishing drop to 53% memory usage - a level that remained stable!! What?! ?
• Consistent Performance: Even after adding another 80 tabs in a new window and starting a YouTube video, the extension managed to keep memory usage hovering around 50%.
In my opinion, if you are a power user and struggle with browser & memory issues from having tons of tabs open, this extension’s ability to dramatically reduce memory consumption while maintaining a smooth browsing experience will shock you. At least, it has shocked me. It has fundamentally changed how I manage my browser workflow, allowing me to keep numerous tabs open without sacrificing system performance. Frankly, I’m gobsmacked.
Unbelievable Performance
Auto Tab Discard is on a whole different level than other tab management solutions I've tried.
• Dramatic Memory Reduction: With around 50 tabs open, the extension's impact was immediately noticeable. However, the true test came when I pushed it to the limit .
• Handling Hundreds of Tabs: Upon opening hundreds of tabs across several Firefox windows, my system's memory usage skyrocketed to 90%. Activating Auto Tab Discard resulted in an astonishing drop to 53% memory usage - a level that remained stable!! What?! ?
• Consistent Performance: Even after adding another 80 tabs in a new window and starting a YouTube video, the extension managed to keep memory usage hovering around 50%.
In my opinion, if you are a power user and struggle with browser & memory issues from having tons of tabs open, this extension’s ability to dramatically reduce memory consumption while maintaining a smooth browsing experience will shock you. At least, it has shocked me. It has fundamentally changed how I manage my browser workflow, allowing me to keep numerous tabs open without sacrificing system performance. Frankly, I’m gobsmacked.
949 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pontoporeia, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by thajose, 22 days agoBeen a Firefox user since it was an alpha release. I've never written a review for any extension until now. This extension made Firefox on Ubuntu usable for me again. I typically have several tabs opened at all time. After 12 or so, Firefox would become nearly unusable, particularly if any videos began playing in those tabs. Auto Tab Discard has made it to where I can have several dozen tabs open and everything runs fine. To the developer, thank you so much for this.
One thing I will point out is that the name is a bit misleading - No tabs appear to be discarded, thrown away, or deleted. They are just put in a suspended state and removed from active memory. At one time, I thought Firefox had a feature like this built in however, if that still exists, it no longer works very well. Auto Tab Discard is an absolute must for me now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Michael Rabinovsky, 22 days agoI think the description says it all, but I'll add that the benefits of this addon are immense, and it is amazing to me that it isn't built into the browser. This addon turned my old laptop from unusable to nice to browse on. In addition, as a heavy tabber with hundreds of tabs open, it allows me to run more memory-intensive software on my desktop without closing my browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dfaure, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NiGoDa, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17564609, 25 days agoIt appears that the AI-powered tab grouping of Firefox keeps this extension from being effective.
You need to turn off 'Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups' in Settings > General.
The extension discards tabs more than Tab Unloading, a function of Firefox and is more flexible.
I still needs it. - Rated 5 out of 5by whatever, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Josy, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18241146, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shubham Soni, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by itscool, a month agoEdit: Options work perfectly now, it was problem on my end.
Useful for my potatoe, but the options do not take effect for me for some reason which would be super helpful otherwise. Thank you. Shall revise the review when I can get that working. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17628517, a month 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, a month agoReally helps conserve RAM and my aging device. Thanks! God Bless
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nick, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by deigue, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19134316, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by caam, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel Bednarski, 2 months agoIt works very well and what I like most is that the add-on behavior is very customizable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SuperPlasmaPea1, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18694712, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leo, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SleepyEvie, 3 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.