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Tiny Suspender is almost similar with The Great Suspender extension: it "suspends" background tabs to reduce Chrome's resource consumption. But it has slightly different feature set and different implementation, as well as focused on being as tiny as possible.

Source code is available here: https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender

> But it has slightly different feature set and different implementation, as well as focused on being as tiny as possible.

That's precisely what I wanted to know more, because I already use The Great Suspender. You know, I usually blow my chrome with 50+ tabs, thus extensions like these really save memory for me, although a tab is still a process from what I understand and even in 'hibernated' mode it still consumes some memory. Yours reduces it even more? If yes, by how much? Thank you

Tiny Suspender has two hibernation mode. The default one is pretty similar with The Great Suspender in which it replaces the page with a special "suspension" page loaded from the extension assets. Chrome actually run these "suspended" page under a single extension process, so if you have 50 suspended tabs, they actually run under a single Tiny Suspender extension process, which typically consume ~30-60mb of memory (sometime more, sometime less. Not sure why) on osx.

The other mode is experimental and can be enabled from settings. It uses the experimental Chrome tab discard API. This API has some limitations, and I never actually measure the actual memory saving under this mode, but if what chrome dev saying is true, it could potentially save even more memory.

Actually author of The Great Suspender created a new version called The Great Discarder [0] that is using that new API.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...

Thank you, I'll consider doing a benchmark later and I will be happy to switch if the difference is significant :). Nonetheless congratulations on your project!

Thanks!

I sent a PR for dark mode settings and styling. https://github.com/arifwn/TinySuspender/pull/1

Thanks! I'll review it soon.

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