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how to open many tabs in chromium but unload/disable inactive/notCurrent ones, releasing memory and cpu?


So I have 50 tabs opened on chromium, but that is using too much memory and some of the CPU.

How can I have all those concurrent researches I am doing opened but not clog my machine?

I think there should have a way that only the active tab is loaded in memory and running, and all the others should stay closed/unloaded from memory, until I want to look at them...

Any extension can do something like that?

EDIT: tabs outliner seems to do the trick as @Danny Beckett said, but I still wonder if the non active tabs could be unloaded (automatically); may be something like keep only the last newest 10 tabs opened/loaded, and auto-close the older ones; may be tabs outliner can have that feature in the future, just need find a proper way to ask its developer... any other tips?

EDIT: here a link to the idea: auto close old tabs, go there and upvote if you like it!


Solution

  • The Tabs Outliner extension does exactly what you're asking.