The Great Discarder
"The Great Discarder" is a clone of my other open source chrome extension "The Great Suspender". It was built to take advantage of Google's new 'tab discarding' functionality which is essentially a native implementation of tab suspension. This implementation is more robust and performant, both in the resources consumed by the extension, and the memory savings of the tab suspension. It is also compatible with chrome tab history syncing.
If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, please submit a bug or a feature request.
Installation
- 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 downloaded, unarchived release and confirm.
If you have completed the above steps, the "welcome" page will open indicating successful installation of the extension.
License
This work is licensed under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v2)
Shoutouts
This package uses the indexedDb wrapper [db.js] (https://github.com/aaronpowell/db.js) written by Aaron Powell. Thank you also to www.browserstack.com for providing free chrome testing tools.