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I currently use the Great Suspender on Chrome, which will suspend a tab that's been open for a while. The suspended tab just shows a Great Suspender icon, so it takes up ~0 RAM. I've whitelisted certain domains and sites (eg Messenger apps).

I know there are a ton of extensions aimed at this problem, including OneTab (which will collapse many tabs into a single page of links), but TGS works the best for my workflow.

I also use Session Buddy to periodically backup my current window/tab state, which I find more reliable and powerful than the default tab-restore functionality.



DANGER, Will Robinson!

I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new (since June) "maintainer". This issue sums it up well: "SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious"[1]

Here is the gist of it:

> Using the chrome web store version of this extension, without disabling tracking, will execute code from an untrusted third-party on your computer, with the power to modify any and all websites that you see.

So, installing from the Chrome Web Store is a complete no-go.

One can still install the extension from GitHub, but with Chrome constantly evolving and the now, unmaintained-on-GitHub extension having known issues with losing all your tabs (to which there are workarounds), I'm very wary of using this extension.

[1]: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...


Thank you for the heads-up! The way extension stores work always made me a little uneasy about using smaller ones like this.

Edit: haha, someone seems to have seen your comment and made a post that made it to the Frontpage of HN


You're welcome! Yes, it's quite problematic and there are numerous ways malicious code can abuse the sandboxed environment.

That's great news about that article! Thanks for pointing that out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015




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