Light Tab Suspender is a lightweight extension that helps reduce memory usage by manually suspending tabs.
It saves the tab’s URL and title, replacing the page with a lightweight placeholder, cutting memory usage from ~150MB per tab to ~10MB.
When you unsuspend a tab, it instantly restores to its original state.
- Visit the Chrome Web Store.
- Click "Add to Chrome" to install the extension.
- Download or clone this repository.
- In Google Chrome, navigate to "chrome://extensions/" and select enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner.
- Click the "Load unpacked extension" button.
- Browse to the
srcdirectory from the cloned repository and confirm.
- Visit chrome://extensions/shortcuts for setting extension keyboard shortcuts.
- Under "Light Tab Suspender", set a shortcut e.g.
Alt + S, to suspend and unsuspend a tab.
