Tab Suspender

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Daniel O'Toole

Sep 24, 2025

New windows in Chrome automatically suspended in seconds

If I open a new window in Chrome, no matter what I am doing in the window it is suspended within a few seconds. If reactivated then it conforms to normal behaviour and doesn't suspend again for the set time. I can't find any setting associated with this.
It's annoying enough that I am considering uninstalling but I really need a tab suspender and besides this issue yours is the best.
Thanks!

Xavion

Sep 23, 2025

The "Suspend or Unsuspend Current Tab (in one HotKey)" keyboard shortcut doesn't work

The subject is fairly self-explanatory. When I set the "Suspend or Unsuspend Current Tab (in one HotKey)" keyboard shortcut to "Alt + S", nothing happens. It won't suspend or un-suspend any tabs. Are you able to fix this?

Drunken Hamster

Aug 23, 2025

Tabs won't suspend at all after recent August update

Newly opened tabs won't auto suspend and re-opened previously suspended tabs will not re-suspend anymore. I also can't manually suspend tabs. The button just does NOTHING. Also, in general, my chrome keeps UN-pinning your (and other) extensions as well as changing the pin order of what I already had and RE-pinning extensions that I unpinned every time I restart the program or my PC's power goes out.

I'm SO close to just jumping ship to Firefox. I already have some tabs imported, I just need to double down.

Ratio Ma

Aug 12, 2025

Difference between suspend and discard

Hi. This extension is GREAT to use! I'd like to know what's the difference between suspend and discard in settings. Thanks for develop this extension.

Our Free Society

Jul 16, 2025

It never worked properly after you fixed it.

Hi there,

I appreciate all of your hard work, & I know that Chrome is a (you can fill in the blank), but the extension isn't working properly.

Once you fixed it for manifest 3,

1. Like others have said, it doesn't suspend based on the time we set. Mine was set the same for years, I never changed it.

2. The page style only shows the blue thingy, not the one I always have it set to which is no style.

3. It's been crashing non stop & I think now it's been affecting my Zoho docs. And yes I have a lot of tabs, windows & profiles.

4. It's now crashing my Supermium browser & all my profiles. sigh

Are you going to be able to fix it?

Also, I just heard of this method of suspending from another extension, can you use this other method?

" discard inactive tabs after a specified amount of time to reduce memory usage and prevent background scripts from consuming computational resources when it is not in use. This extension uses the native method for tab discarding, which means it does not suffer from the same issues as other extensions that use custom methods. When a tab is discarded by the native method, it is completely removed from memory and does not use any resources, but it can be restored to its previous state, including preserving page state such as scroll position. "

Please let us know.

Thanks

Edouard Lorenceau

Jul 14, 2025

Allow MANUAL suspend on whitelisted tabs

It's nice to have a whitelist, but to me its only purpose it to whitelist tabs from being AUTO-suspended! If the whitelist prevents me from MANUALLY closing a tab as well then the whitelist is pointless!

I can see that MAYBE some people would want it that way, but it should not be the default behavior. There should be a toggle in the whitelist settings page to "allow the whitelist to prevent even manual suspend", and that toggle should be off by default.

Also, everything I've said here should also apply for the "ignore audible tabs" and "ignore Pinned tabs" toggles

Adam Berlin

Apr 30, 2025

Suspending tabs after as little as 2 seconds

If I open a tab then click to another and come back, they are often (usually but not always) suspended almost immediately (as little as 2 seconds).
I turned off the auto-adjust feature, and set it to 4 minutes, but it isn't respecting the rules in its settings.
Otherwise been a big fan, thanks!

Amina Simon

Apr 29, 2025

Suspend time not working properly

Hello! I love your extension and am thankful that you've updated it. Unfortunately with the new version, my "suspend tabs after" time is not being respected. I have it set to 2 hours of inactivity, but tabs are often suspending after just a few minutes of being left unused. I would appreciate a fix to this bug! Thank you!

jnf

Apr 18, 2025

Hotkey in v2.0.6 is not working - "Suspend or Unsuspend Current Tab (in one HotKey)"

No matter what key combination is assigned to this function (e.g. Alt-S, Alt-H), it does not suspend nor unsuspend the tab. Tested the same hotkey combinations (e.g. Alt-S, Alt-H) on other hotkey functions and those do work, so it's not the key combo itself being blocked or something.

Our Free Society

Apr 1, 2025

Still on my machine, but

The settings aren't working.

Everything I set before has probably gone back to default & trying to set it again doesn't work.

Just note that you shouldn't bow down to evil goolag. I have another extension that isn't allowed on their evil store & it works fine.

Can you fix it & email all of us?

Thanks