"The Great Suspender" is a Google Chrome extension that will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and CPU cycles that the tab was consuming.
This is a fork of greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender. It was created after the original project was suspected to contain malware; see https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/07/great_suspender_malware/.
Check out CHANGELOG.md for a list of changes in this fork.
I currently have no intention of maintaining this extension for anyone but myself. You're very welcome to fork this repository. But please don't contact me with feature requests or about errors.
- Download the latest available version and unarchive to your preferred location (whichever suits you).
- Using Google Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://extensions/ and enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner.
- Click on the Load unpacked extension... button.
- Browse to the src directory of the unarchived folder and confirm.
If you have completed the above steps, the "welcome" page will open indicating successful installation of the extension.
Be sure to unsuspend all suspended tabs before removing any other version of the extension or they will disappear forever!
Dependencies: openssl, npm.
Clone the repository and run these commands:
npm install
npm run generate-key
npm run build
It should say:
Done, without errors.
The extension in crx format will be inside the build/crx/ directory. You can drag it into [extensions] (chrome://extensions) to install locally.
This work is licensed under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v2)
This package uses the html2canvas library written by Niklas von Hertzen. It also uses the indexedDb wrapper db.js written by Aaron Powell. Thank you also to BrowserStack for providing free chrome testing tools.