geofsu / thegreatsuspender

A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

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The Great Suspender

"The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming.

If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, please submit a bug or a feature request.

Installation

  1. Download the latest available version and unarchive to your preferred location (whichever suits you).
  2. Using Google Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://extensions/ and enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner.
  3. Click on the Load unpacked extension... button, browse to the unarchived directory of the downloaded release and confirm.

If you have completed the above steps, the "welcome" page will open indicating successfull installation of the extension.

License

This work is licensed under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v2)

This package uses the [html2canvas] (https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas) library written by Niklas von Hertzen.

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A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

License:GNU General Public License v2.0


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