Dormancy Alternatives

The Great Suspender

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 at the same time. This...

Features:

• Google Chrome Extensions
• Resource management
• Safari extension

UnloadTab

An essential add-on for power users that have many tabs open. Curb your resource usage by unloading tabs that you haven't visited for a while. An unloaded tab is...

Auto Tab Discard

Auto Tab Discard a lightweight extension that uses the native method (tabs.discard) to unload or suspend browser tabs to significantly reduce the memory footprint of...

Features:

• Firefox Extensions
• Low memory usage
• Memory footprint
• Memory usage

Firemin

Firemin will force Firefox to use less memory. It is safe to use, spyware free and completely free. Firemin Installs instantly. Mozilla claims to have improved the...

Features:

• Memory usage
• Optimized Firefox
• Portable

The Great Discarder

Automatically discards unused tabs to free up system resources. Suspend tabs to reduce chrome memory usage. Uses chrome's native tab discarding.

Features:

• Google Chrome Extensions
• Configurable
• Memory usage
• User friendly

BarTab

So you keep open tabs like libraries keep books... Aren't you afraid Firefox will consume all your memory? Don't you fear browser restarts because it takes so...

Features:

• Firefox Extensions
• Optimized Firefox

Total Suspender

# Features - Only minimal user-permissions are required (storage to save configuration and tabs) - Whitelisting and blacklisting features. You can enter URLs or...

Features:

• Browser extension
• Firefox Extensions