Reviews for Auto Tab Discard
Auto Tab Discard by tlintspr
Review by kelendral
Rated 2 out of 5
by kelendral, 3 years agoThe description makes claims that are not so true in the current FF environments (other unloaders don't actually unload) that are easily verified in about:performance and about:memory. Checking those, one can see if the other unloaders work or not.
Annoyingly it does something no other unloader I have tried so far does, marks every tab it unloads as 'updated' in the same way as if the tab had an autorefresh or notification. This makes every tab it unloads look as though a message is pending if you highlight such in any way. UNLOADING SHOULD NOT MARK A TAB AS UPDATED!
Last it misses tabs that based on the setting should most definitely be unloaded. Sometimes even duplicates of the same tab (thus confirming no rule conflicts as it unloads some but not other duplicate identical content tabs).
Annoyingly it does something no other unloader I have tried so far does, marks every tab it unloads as 'updated' in the same way as if the tab had an autorefresh or notification. This makes every tab it unloads look as though a message is pending if you highlight such in any way. UNLOADING SHOULD NOT MARK A TAB AS UPDATED!
Last it misses tabs that based on the setting should most definitely be unloaded. Sometimes even duplicates of the same tab (thus confirming no rule conflicts as it unloads some but not other duplicate identical content tabs).
825 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tuana, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joe, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seikikai, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dustin, 23 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Pete, 24 days agoNot sure whether it is working or not.
Even after discarding most of the open tabs
(~150 ), I couldn't see any noticeable memory usage reduction....
Could someone give some numbers (bytes or percentage)
of memory amount recovered after discard of a (big enough,
for to be trustworthy) number of tabs? - Rated 5 out of 5by Some1else{}, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AAAAAA, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by -= Cara =-, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17717340, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by alfred, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sleepwalker, 2 months agoThere is no other way for me to open 20 youtube tabs without lagging.
- Rated 5 out of 5by J. Ryan Stinnett, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben, 2 months agoSimple and works well, loaded with settings/preferences so you can really fine-tune it's behavior the way you want it. Awesome!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17943208, 2 months agoWorks super well, makes my Mac run 10x smoother on heavy browser load.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sam Tuke, 2 months agoGame-changer - transforms the performance of my high powered laptop (128GB RAM)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13469189, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by some guy, 2 months agoWorks, but if I maximize/fullscreen a window over discarded tabs they all release when that window minimizes/resizes
- Rated 4 out of 5by magmen3, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by thugcee, 2 months ago