New Update TabMemFree for Google Chrome

[jamescv7]

This addon is very suitable for low specification and struggles for RAM issue.

TabMemFree saves your RAM by unloading inactive tabs
This extension is for one who has a lot of tabs hanging around without any use for a long time. It lowers Mem/CPU consumption.

When you don't use tab for some time, extension unloads it by forwarding tab to an empty page. When you activate one of unloaded tabs, extension forwards this tab back to the original page.

Faster start of Chrome with previously unloaded tabs is a nice side effect.
Inspired by BarTab add-on for Firefox.

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[Ink]

I fail to see how this operates. :huh:

 

[McLovin]

This confueses me...

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

Same situation... But try it.

 

[jamescv7]

Actually this is how it works, for example you have two tabs:

As you see the first tab went to a logo of TabMemFree it means the inactive tab would turn as idle in order to decrease the RAM and CPU usage and when you click that inactive tab again it restores on the original page.

Likely to be annoying but you can set the timing through options.

 

[MrXidus]

I've got plenty of RAM but I'm always willing to give things like this a test run. So far I would rather see the sites default favicon instead of it changing to a RAM icon. As I often have many tabs open, It would just make it easier to navigate. Perhaps dim the sites favicon in the tab to show it's enabled.

We'll see what the developer does in future updates.