Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by taco
Rated 5 out of 5
by taco, 3 years agoLoving the addon so far ! Been using it for months now and had zero bugs, it has simply just worked 100% of the time, which is amazing.
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
I have a feature request though which in my opinion would add to it's value immensely.
As the core goal of this is not necessarily reducing the number of loaded tabs, but rather reducing CPU (and by extension, battery/heat/power) usage, RAM and disk I/O. So what would be great, would be the possibility to unload tabs by their resource usage. This data is available in firefox profiler capabilities but it's rather cumbersome going checking the data by hand through the debugging tools.
The feature could be added as a new condition to be mixed with others, like after X open tabs unload tabs which use >X% CPU and/or >X MB RAM / unload the next highest resource usage tab / after X minutes close tabs using X% cpu or X MB RAM / only close tabs which use >X resources.
Adding a tooltip when hovering over a tab which displays their CPU/RAM usage would be neat too.
For my use case as I've moved the FF profile to ram disk and I have plenty of RAM, I don't really care about disk I/O or RAM usage, but badly coded CPU-heavy scripts on some sites makes browsing a slog (not to mention killing the battery when on a laptop), hence this plugin. But a static site which runs very little to no scripts does not really contribute to the resource usage, unlike some badly behaving sites.
And systems which are more starved of RAM, could start unloading tabs by highest RAM usage instead, when total RAM usage exceeds X MB as a condition, for example.
Anyway, just my two cents for now, and keep up the good work !
916 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18576703, 3 days agoHeavily reduced the energy and performance being used by all the tabs I have open, highly recommended.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maximilian Grothusmann, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKM, 18 days agoI've found Auto Tab Discard very useful for many years. It keeps my browser running smooth, even when I've got upwards of 400 tabs open.
PostScript: Yes, I know I have an open tabs problem - Rated 5 out of 5by Roma Gromov, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IonuțAlex18, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oz, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by trav1295, a month agoEverything works for me (that I've set it up for) except the option to discard pinned tabs on startup. Logs just say it's not ready. But, this add-on seems to be abandoned atm :(
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ronak, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Abdullah Shah, a month agoBrilliant app. Life saver for computers having low ram installed. Best across the board.
- Rated 5 out of 5by DaemonCipher, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14119405, 2 months agoAll new tabs crash with this extension now. If the add-on won't be updated, there's no point in continuing to use it
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheZupZup, 2 months agoi would just like to know when a update will be made because it's been 2 years
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mad_dog, 2 months agoAwesome extension. Very useful for managing sleeping tabs automatically and/or manually.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18854398, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FA, 2 months agoFantastic add-on. One feature request though - could you add the ability to not automatically reload the tab when viewing a discarded tab. In other words, if I click on a discarded tab, it should show a "discarded tab" page and only when I "click" on the page should it load. The reason is that lots of time I accidentally switch to a discarded tab and then it loads the tab when I really wanted it to stay discarded. This is a feature that the Marvellous Suspender has and I think it would be a great feature addition here.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17932648, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Acuber12, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15138992, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18080258, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vinh Nguyen, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Or Schiro, 2 months agoLifesaver if you are working with dozens of tabs and tab groups.