We’ll keep a close eye on the further development of this feature and will let you know if we learn anything new. This is all still a work in progress, and nothing is finalized yet. The description for another issue suggests it might also be possible to pin the tab groups “similar to extensions. For example, issue 122391 indicates that the option to save tabs will be added in the Bubble UI that appears when you right-click on the title of the tab group. The descriptions for these bugs shed some light on how this new option will work. The patch has several bugs which are yet to be fixed. Give it a shot and tell us what you think in the comments.Adds a flag for TabGroupsSave which allows users to save their tab groups into their bookmarks bar. Overall, Auto Tab Discard could be one of the best Google Chrome extensions. But there are several options to customize how the extension treats all your open tabs, which you’ll need to explore for yourself. Tabs that are actively playing media, or have unsaved form data will be left alone - as will your pinned tabs. Chrome was still using a hefty number of resources, over 1,100MB more than my next-most resource hungry application, but this is still significantly better.Īuto Tab Discard won’t go to work on everything, though.

After telling the browser to discard all tabs except for the two I was actively using, Chrome’s RAM usage dropped by over a gigabyte.

Testing Auto Tab DiscardĪuto Tab Discard does work. Though it does mean the discarded tabs have to reload when you switch back, which takes a bit more time. It’s similar to what Microsoft’s Edge browser does, which helps the software use fewer resources. Discarded tabs are purged from your machine’s memory, and can’t eat up any resources by working in the background. The effects won't be obvious right away, because Auto Tab Discard works by monitoring your browser activity and ‘discards’ those tabs that have been inactive for extended periods of time.

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