![]() having to click on the page too to restore it which I like. Unlike The Great Suspender, when you click on a discarded tab, it comes up right away, vs. On a few pages I tested, it also remembered where I was scrolled to on the page, when I navigated back to the tabs. You can then set The Great Discarder to discard pages after any of several convenient intervals (although not after n seconds). to actually discard your tabs, but if you have a lot open, using a lot of memory, you can readily refresh the discards page, and see the memory in use drop. You can set The Great Discarder to discard pages inactive after e.g. Chrome's memory usage, appears to be a big secret now). You can go to chrome://discards/ to see the total and the free memory (but the sum of memory in tasks in the Task Manager, i.e. When it is discarded, it doesn't even show up in the Task Manager. When a tab is hibernated, it virtually stops using CPU but you can see that the memory is still in use. With The Great Suspender, you can go to Customize And Control Button | More Tools | Task Manager, and see the CPU and memory each tab takes up. This Chrome plugin claims to free up memory as well as CPU and it seems to work. Get the latest news on new launches, gadget reviews, apps, cybersecurity, and more on personal technology only on DH Tech.There's a new kid on the block: The Great Discarder. With the TGS extension gone, users can shift to other alternatives including One Tab, Tab Outliner, Session Buddy, Auto Tab Discard, Dustman, TooManyTabs, and The Great Discarder, among others. Well, they could until Google nuked the extension from their store."- reads the GitHub message. The malicious maintainer remains in control, however, and can introduce an update at any time. After Microsoft removed it from Edge for malware, v7.1.9 was created without this code: that has been the code running since November, and it does not appear to load the compromised script. In v7.1.8 of the extension (published to the web store but NOT to GitHub), arbitrary code was executed from a remote server, which appeared to be used to commit a variety of tracking and fraud actions. "The old (The Great Suspender) maintainer appears to have sold the extension to parties unknown, who have malicious intent to exploit the users of this extension in advertising fraud, tracking, and more. Now, the result for the TGS search shows a 404 error. Google has removed The Great Suspender and will no longer appear on the Chrome web store. In fact, this issue was flagged way bay in November 2020 on GitHub, but it comes to light only now. ( Note: An extension is a type of tool made for modifying core functionality, in this case, TGS for Chrome, to improve the user experience and related speed of response such as swapping of tabs and loading websites.) ![]() ![]() Apparently, the original TGS owner solid it to an unknown bidder and the latter might have injected nefarious codes to perform remote executions on users' PCs. However, it has come to light that the TGS application has been compromised with malicious codes. Among many, The Great Suspender (TGS) is a widely used utility tool for Chrome browsers on PCs. To mitigate this issue, users to tend install extensions, which promises better speed with Chrome. No matter how top-end PC you buy, it tends to become slow, as it hogs a lot of RAM. Google's Chrome is undeniably the most feature-rich browser in the world, but it has one bad attribute that annoys a lot of users. ![]()
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