Magic Tab Unloader by Halil Kahraman
Automatically unloads idle tabs to save memory, with per-site profiles, schedules and greyed-out tab icons.
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Magic Tab Unloader unloads tabs you have not used for a while, the same as right-click → Unload Tab, so they stop using memory but stay in your tab bar. Click a tab and it reloads.
Unload rules • Choose how many idle minutes before a tab is unloaded (or turn it off) • Per-site profiles: match a site by hostname and give it its own idle time, or "never unload" • Active hours: apply a profile only on certain days or hours, including overnight • Never unload pinned tabs or tabs playing audio (both optional) • Right-click any page or tab → "Never unload this site" • The active tab is never touched
Quality of life • Restart memory: after Firefox restarts, tabs that were unloaded before are unloaded again • Optional: grey out the icon of tabs the extension unloads, with a small sleeping "zZ", like Firefox does for tabs unloaded from its own menu • Toolbar popup with the basic settings: pause, idle time, pinned tabs, "unload idle tabs now", and how many tabs are unloaded • Export and import your profiles as a JSON file
Privacy The extension has no accounts, no analytics and makes no network requests. Settings and statistics stay in your browser.
Open source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/halilkhrmn/magic-tab-unloader-firefox
Unload rules • Choose how many idle minutes before a tab is unloaded (or turn it off) • Per-site profiles: match a site by hostname and give it its own idle time, or "never unload" • Active hours: apply a profile only on certain days or hours, including overnight • Never unload pinned tabs or tabs playing audio (both optional) • Right-click any page or tab → "Never unload this site" • The active tab is never touched
Quality of life • Restart memory: after Firefox restarts, tabs that were unloaded before are unloaded again • Optional: grey out the icon of tabs the extension unloads, with a small sleeping "zZ", like Firefox does for tabs unloaded from its own menu • Toolbar popup with the basic settings: pause, idle time, pinned tabs, "unload idle tabs now", and how many tabs are unloaded • Export and import your profiles as a JSON file
Privacy The extension has no accounts, no analytics and makes no network requests. Settings and statistics stay in your browser.
Open source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/halilkhrmn/magic-tab-unloader-firefox
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Required permissions:
- Access browser tabs
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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- Version
- 0.5.0
- Size
- 45.46 KB
- Last updated
- 8 days ago (Oct 4, 2026)
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