auto-tab-discard: Open Source Browsers & Extensions

auto-tab-discard is a free, open source browsers & extensions project written in JavaScript and released under MPL-2.0. It has 1,206 GitHub stars, 107 forks and 189 open issues, and was last pushed 13 days ago. On this registry it ranks #92 of 101 tracked projects in Browsers & Extensions, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

Auto Tab Discard

A browser extension which uses the native tab discarding method (chrome.tabs.discard) to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. This extension is more efficient and should be less buggy compared to the alternatives extensions that use DOM replacement method.

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Is auto-tab-discard free to use?

auto-tab-discard is open source under the MPL-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does auto-tab-discard do?

Use native tab discarding method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs

What is auto-tab-discard written in?

auto-tab-discard is primarily written in JavaScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/rNeomy/auto-tab-discard, and it has 1,206 GitHub stars.