The Great Suspender

Auto-suspend inactive tabs to reduce memory usage of chrome

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What it does

The Great Suspender is a lightweight chrome extension to help reduce chrome's memory footprint for users that like to have too many tabs open by automatically suspending unused tabs to free up system resources.

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