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Comment by bogomipz | Hacker News Reader

What is The Great Suspender?

Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.

(To add to the description, from their github readme)

> "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

chrome already has this behavior built in, start where I left off under settings.

Is this different?

Yep. You can save named sessions so that you can go back in time as needed.

Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.

Chrome's session restore silently loses tabs when you have a lot open. It is completely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes a window will come back with half the tabs missing, which is obvious, but when it's only a couple missing, it's much harder to even know.

Also, Session Buddy lets you export sessions to back them up and move them between computers, etc.

If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?

But then you miss out on the new chance at life http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser...

23? is that a lot? that's about normal for me, and i didn't think i was too bad. my office mate usually has a couple hundred tabs open.

Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.

Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)

It's basically like Bartab Plus for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ ) but for Chrome

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