- The Great Discarder
+ The Great-er Discarder-erSince the "The Great Discarder" project has been dormant for years, and the semi-related "The Great Suspender" has hit some bumps in the road, I thought I'd take a crack at publishing this fork.
"The Great-er Discarder-er" continues where "The Great Discarder" left off, and will (hopefully) add some functionality while keeping things simple.
If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, please submit a bug or a feature request.
"The Great-er Discarder-er" is available on the Chrome Web Store.
"The Great Discarder" started as a clone of another (former) open source chrome extension "The Great Suspender". It was built to take advantage of Chromium's 'tab discarding' functionality which is essentially a native implementation of tab suspension. This extension 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.
- Download the latest release 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.
Dependencies: openssl, nodejs / 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 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.