The Great Suspender Reloaded - Tab Suspender 2026

Overview

🧠 The Best Tab Suspender for Chrome — Save Memory, Speed Up Your Browser The Great Suspender Reloaded is a powerful tab suspender that automatically freezes inactive tabs to free up RAM and CPU. If your browser gets slow because of too many open tabs — this extension is the solution. Every open tab uses 50–300 MB of memory. With 20+ tabs, that's gigabytes of RAM wasted on pages you aren't even looking at. This tab suspender replaces idle tabs with a lightweight page, saving 1–4+ GB of RAM instantly. Click a suspended tab to restore it — right where you left off, scroll position included. Works as a tab suspender, tab freezer, and memory saver — all in one clean, private extension. 🆕 WHAT'S NEW (2026) 🌍 55 Languages — Full localization: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and 44 more. The entire interface — settings, popups, suspended pages, keyboard shortcuts — is translated. 🗣️ Language Switcher — Override the browser language from extension settings. Switch to any of the 55 supported languages without changing your system locale. 🪞 RTL Support — Full right-to-left layout for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. 💾 Automatic Session Backups — Never lose your tabs again. The extension automatically saves a backup of all open tabs to your Downloads folder. Choose the frequency: every hour, daily, weekly, or monthly. Backups also run before every extension update. No extra permissions required. 📰 Changelog Page — New "What's New" tab in settings so you always know what changed. 🔧 Improved Startup Reliability — After a browser restart, suspended tabs that lost their connection are automatically detected and reloaded. No more blank suspended pages. 🔄 HOW IT WORKS When a tab sits unused for a configurable time (from 1 minute to 2 weeks), the extension suspends it — unloading all heavy content from memory. The tab shows a lightweight page with the original title and URL. Restore a suspended tab in any of these ways: • Click anywhere on the page • Press F5 • Use the keyboard shortcut (default: Ctrl+Shift+S / ⌘+⇧+S on Mac) • Enable auto-unsuspend — tabs restore the moment you switch to them Unlike Chrome's built-in Memory Saver, this tab suspender gives you full control: whitelist, custom timers, session management, keyboard shortcuts, screen previews, and much more. ⚡ FEATURES ⏱️ Automatic Suspension Timer Choose when to suspend idle tabs — from 1 minute to 2 weeks, or set to "Never" for manual-only mode. 🛡️ Smart Protection Rules The extension is smart about what to keep active: 📌 Never suspend pinned tabs (Gmail, Slack, Spotify stay live) 🔊 Never suspend tabs playing audio or video 📝 Never suspend tabs with unsaved form data 👁️ Never suspend the active tab in each window 📡 Never suspend tabs when offline 🔋 Never suspend tabs when charging 📋 Whitelist Protect specific URLs, domains, or regex patterns from ever being suspended. The "Test whitelist" button verifies your rules against all open tabs. 🖱️ One-Click Actions (Popup Menu) • Suspend or unsuspend a single tab • Suspend or unsuspend only selected tabs • Suspend all other tabs in the window • Unsuspend all tabs at once • Add a page or domain to the whitelist ⌨️ 10 Keyboard Shortcuts • Suspend/Unsuspend active tab (Ctrl+Shift+S) • Pause/Unpause suspension • Suspend/Unsuspend selected tabs • Suspend all in current window • Force suspend all in current window • Unsuspend all in current window • Suspend all in all windows • Force suspend all in all windows • Unsuspend all in all windows All shortcuts are customizable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. 📂 Session Manager Save, export, import, and restore your browsing sessions: • View your current session with all windows and tabs • Browse automatically saved session snapshots • Save and name sessions for later • Export/import sessions as text files • Restore sessions fully loaded or kept suspended Great for saving a "work" session before switching contexts. 💾 Automatic Backups Protect your browsing sessions with scheduled auto-backups: • Choose frequency: hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly • Backups saved as plain text files to your Downloads folder • Automatic pre-update backup before every extension update • Lists all windows and tabs with their URLs • Can be disabled or reconfigured at any time in settings 📸 Screen Capture Preview Optionally capture a screenshot before suspending a tab: • Disabled (best performance) • Top of screen only • Entire page (full scrollable content) • High quality mode 💾 Chrome Discard Integration Combine suspension with Chrome's native tab discarding for up to 500% more memory savings. Each suspended tab uses almost zero RAM. ⚠️ Low Memory Auto-Suspend When system memory gets critically low, the extension suspends tabs before Chrome discards them — preserving your screenshots and session data. 🌍 55 Languages Fully translated interface in 55 languages including: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US, UK, AU), Estonian, Finnish, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (& Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Amharic. RTL layout support for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. 🌙 Dark & Light Theme Choose a theme for suspended tab pages. 🔗 Settings Sync Sync your settings across all Chrome browsers logged into the same Google account. 🕶️ Incognito Support Works in incognito mode with session features disabled for privac