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Browser extension The Great Suspender has a new owner. Possibly unsafe now. [up: removed from Chrome extensions by Google]
- Thread starter nsilvias
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Apparently there's a way to disable the tracking stuff and most people seem to at least accept using it for the time being.
There are alternatives, but nothing that works exactly the same way, so I've been continuing to use unless it really is a hot dumpster fire and Google ends up delisting it like a lot of the Malware extensions that got removed recently.
There are alternatives, but nothing that works exactly the same way, so I've been continuing to use unless it really is a hot dumpster fire and Google ends up delisting it like a lot of the Malware extensions that got removed recently.
Been using Auto Tab Discard for Firefox and Chrome for the past year.
But yeah have to keep up to date on these extensions.
But yeah have to keep up to date on these extensions.
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it unloads tabs that havent been accessed after a certain amount of time without closing them to free up ram and speed up your computer.
You'd be shocked how often this happens. I made some extensions when Chrome first started allowing them and would get emails almost daily from people who either wanted to buy it or "partner" and stick ads in them.
Most people leave extensions to auto-update too so someone can easily just come in and buy that trust. It's the reason I only use very few of them now.
Most people leave extensions to auto-update too so someone can easily just come in and buy that trust. It's the reason I only use very few of them now.
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I dunno it eats less RAM for me.
edit : I mean I know it'srunning chromium. It just runs better for me than chrome did and I love it.
Why not just close them if you're not using them?
It's true enough. It just traded Google services for Microsoft and it's based on the same engine.
It's Chromium with another skin. So yes, it is true.
Thanks for the heads up OP!
It is a reskin on top of Chromium with Microsoft/Google services integrated into it. They even share the same developer tools etc. It's the same browser with a different ui
Edge also has its own native tab suspension and it feels far better than The Great Suspender was for me. Way faster, too.
I don't see any way to change that, either, without changing an extension's update URL to a dummy path.
I have around 800, by far the most I've had, since usually I'd just bookmark all and close at around 200 or something.
But I agree, 2000, 800, or even 200, it's disgusting lol.
Yeah... is there a way to export Great Suspender links to something else? I just got hit with the removal and it basically deleted all my suspended tabs right from under me without warning because Chrome just force-unsuspended it.
Hoping to find a way to save my tabs in my other computers before they're gone too...
Gah too late. I guess it's not my fault for acting fast enough, but jeez.
Hoping to find a way to save my tabs in my other computers before they're gone too...
Gah too late. I guess it's not my fault for acting fast enough, but jeez.
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Most are duplicates anyways of different issues and tasks. I use an addon which makes it very easy.
I can press the buffer button "b" and type what I'm looking for.
(not my screenshot)
I get nuking the extension but also wish there was some warning.
If you happen to be lucky and use Session Buddy along with TGS, you can still pull the URLs. It's a pain, but better than having them lost completely.
If you happen to be lucky and use Session Buddy along with TGS, you can still pull the URLs. It's a pain, but better than having them lost completely.
I forgot I had this installed (but disabled)—just got the notification and uninstalled it.
It's worth noting that Edge recently added a built-in feature that is similar, in terms of auto-suspending inactive tabs after a configurable amount of time. Seems to work well, and it's probably better to rely on a native feature rather than an extension if you're going to be a heavy user. I wasn't an advanced user or Great Suspender, but seems like that + Edge Collections can serve a lot of the same functionality.
It's worth noting that Edge recently added a built-in feature that is similar, in terms of auto-suspending inactive tabs after a configurable amount of time. Seems to work well, and it's probably better to rely on a native feature rather than an extension if you're going to be a heavy user. I wasn't an advanced user or Great Suspender, but seems like that + Edge Collections can serve a lot of the same functionality.
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- Get this extension: Quick Tabs
- Whenever you have too many tabs press ctrl (or cmd) E
- close duplicates and things you aren't using
It's real nice. Way faster than Great Suspender ever was, too.
Auto Tab Discard is what I use in Firefox after I made the jump from Chrome. As good a time as any if you were considering FF.
The one reason I didn't switch was because it seems to automatically reload suspended/discard tabs the moment you click back into them - is that still the case?
Oh dang, I use it all the time to "pause" stuff to go back to later, like comics and (particularly)youtube videos. Do any similar addons auto save the time in youtube videos?
I do this too - Youtube should theoretically save the time of the video when a tab is suspended/discarded on their end, so you could use one of the other extensions if that's your big concern.
Right now I'm just using 7.1.6, but I think that version will eventually die unless someone commits to updating one of the forks going forward.
It still does that, yeah. There doesn't seem to be a setting to disable that behavior from what I've seen.
Though, for me, the main reason that would've been an issue in Chrome is because it doesn't (natively) offer a way to see a list of your tabs, and hovering over a tab to get the full title is not very time efficient when you have a ton. In Firefox there's this dropdown menu that does give you such a list, so it hasn't been an issue for me there. But perhaps your use case is different.
Yeah, sometimes I like to click over because I forgot what it was. lol
Maybe I should switch to Firefox, but I found it to be more of a memory hog... I also don't like that it doesn't resize the tabs in the tab bar to fit in a single window so you have to endlessly scroll, but maybe there's an option to change that behaviour.
I guess I need to use TGS 7.1.6 and then ween myself off of tabs or find a different workflow. It's too bad, because it's something I'd gladly pay for, but I guess when someone comes up to you with a lot of cash it's hard to say no.
So there is a way to recover your tabs if you happen to have Session Buddy as well (or some other session manager).
One way is to basically use the Session Buddy export of your tab backup before Google closed all the tabs and use the regular expression ^(.*uri=) to delete all the garbage in front of the URL to restore the links. The only issue with this is that you'll reopen your tabs as active if you try to restore them.
Another way to do it would be to have your session manager restore all your suspended tabs that don't work anymore, then use an older install of Great Suspender (7.1.6) to export the tabs. Then edit that file to replace the old Great Suspender unique ID with the one generated by the new version of Great Suspender and then re-import the session.
It's a pain, but if you had stuff you wanted to keep and didn't want to trawl through your history there you go. Also I have way too many tabs. lol
One way is to basically use the Session Buddy export of your tab backup before Google closed all the tabs and use the regular expression ^(.*uri=) to delete all the garbage in front of the URL to restore the links. The only issue with this is that you'll reopen your tabs as active if you try to restore them.
Another way to do it would be to have your session manager restore all your suspended tabs that don't work anymore, then use an older install of Great Suspender (7.1.6) to export the tabs. Then edit that file to replace the old Great Suspender unique ID with the one generated by the new version of Great Suspender and then re-import the session.
It's a pain, but if you had stuff you wanted to keep and didn't want to trawl through your history there you go. Also I have way too many tabs. lol