![]() No Track uses the original The Great Suspender assets and icons – retrieved from its GitHub repository ![]() I will discuss The Great Suspender No Track and The Marvelous Suspender in brief below. However, at least two developers forked The Great Suspender repository and undertook maintaining their own, ad- and tracker-free, versions of The Great Suspender extension. Some people used the latest pre-tracker version of the extension. The original Great Suspender extension was removed from the Chrome web store on account of the conduct of its new owner.įortunately, because The Great Suspender code was open source, there were options to continue to benefit from what the extension offers without the trackers. I discussed that unfortunate development in an early Around the Web post and updated my Great Suspender review accordingly. This maintainer inserted unsavory trackers into the extension. However, at the time I wrote the review, I was unaware that the open-source extension had been sold to an anonymous maintainer. That review also brought The New Leaf Journal its first brush with success on social media. My review of the extension, which can be configured to automatically suspend inactive tabs, was favorable. I use it after long Google maps sessions (especially satellite and street View) which may take hundreds of megabytes also after long videos.Īs for this new Firefox 67 automatic tab unload based on the browser’s memory together with tabs specifics, I think it’s a welcomed initiative as long of course as the feature will be configurable (I doubt it wouldn’t be with Firefox).I reviewed The Great Suspender extension for Chromium-based web browsers last August. There is a built-in Firefox feature which is most interesting and that I seldom hear about:Ībout:memory / Free memory / minimize memory usage There are presently several Firefox Quantum compatible extensions which deal with suspending tabs, either automatically either manually I know these hereafter, in fact I’m in the process of wandering if I’d install either one of them, I hesitate because I never have many tabs open and my 8GB are enough for not suspending any :īut these extensions contrarily to announced Firefox 67 native tabs unloading, when proceeding automatically such as ‘Auto Tab Discard’, rely on the number of open tabs rather than on the memory criteria. Now You: How much memory does your browser use, usually? Mozilla expects a drop in out-of-memory related crashes in Firefox and plans to monitor these crashes in the coming weeks to test the hypothesis. Introduced in 2015, Tab Discarding in Chrome discarded tabs from memory if system memory reached a certain threshold. Google implemented a similar feature in the company's Chrome browser. ![]() It appears that it is available on Windows only at this point because its the only platform that Mozilla can detect low-memory conditions on according to the bug assignee Garbriele Svelto.įirefox 67 will be released on to the Stable channel of the browser according to the release schedule. True means the feature is enabled, False that it is disabled. It was turned on by default on my system but you can control it with the preference. The feature is already available in Firefox Nightly. Mozilla uses a simple priority list to determine which tabs to unload when the event fires (from lowest to highest) The bug lists another scenario, to free up resources, but it is not clear yet if and how this will be implemented. Mozilla plans to unload tabs in Firefox in low-memory situations to reduce the number of crashes that users experience caused by low-memory. The initial bug report dates back eight years but work on the feature began in earnest just a short while ago. If things go as planned, Firefox 67 will introduce a new feature to unload unused tabs to improve memory. Mozilla improved tab unloading significantly in recent years. Extensions like Dormancy, Suspend Background Tabs, BarTab, or Unload Tab for Firefox (all no longer compatible with Firefox 57 or newer), or Lazy Load Tabs, TabMemFree, or Tabs Limiter for Google Chrome, supported the functionality for years The concept of unloading tabs in the browser to free up memory is not a new one. If you run Firefox or another browser on a 4 Gigabyte or 2 Gigabyte RAM system, you may experience a lot of caching if you open enough or the right kind of sites. Memory usage, especially on low memory devices, is a priority for browser makers. It is not uncommon anymore that single tabs may use hundreds of Megabyte of memory, and there are cases where memory usage crosses the 1 Gigabyte mark for individual tabs. Browsers use a lot more memory than they did a decade ago, partly because websites grew significantly in size and partly because browsers changed as well.
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