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Save memory! Idle your tabs

Robert Hallock December 22, 2008 3:02 PM ET in Tech

firefoxToday’s stupendous Firefox addon is called TooManyTabs and boasts the swank ability to put user-specified tabs into an idle state. Tabs that have been idled no longer take residence in system memory and free those precious megs for other tasks. Any tab brought up from its sleepy slumber will be restored with all the hot state and history action it was suspended with.

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11 Comments:

  1. mas0n
    technosexual
    22 Dec '08, 3:29 pm

    Glorious. I typically have 20+ tabs open for weeks at a time; will try this out when I get back home.

  2. MiracleManS
    Mediocrity Gets You Pears
    22 Dec '08, 3:56 pm

    I feel like I'm the only person who regularly closes tabs...

  3. Kwitko
    Sheriff of Dicktown
    22 Dec '08, 4:20 pm

    The software link is taking me to the antenna article.

  4. Robert Hallock
    Cad
    22 Dec '08, 4:22 pm

    Fixt. The Esteemed News Desk PC (tm) randomly fails to function.

  5. Kwitko
    Sheriff of Dicktown
    22 Dec '08, 4:41 pm

    It Happens Every Now and Then™

  6. Zuntar
    Modder extraordinaire
    22 Dec '08, 5:10 pm
    Quoting MiracleManS

    I feel like I'm the only person who regularly closes tabs...

    you are not the only one.

  7. Leonardo
    F@H Reign of Terror is back!
    22 Dec '08, 7:12 pm

    I've never bothered to compare memory utilization with multiple tabs opened versus not. Does it really make much of a difference on a computer with 2 or 4GB RAM? (On my anemic laptop....that's another matter!)

  8. DrLiam
    FoxtoN
    22 Dec '08, 11:37 pm

    Ya, definitely a handy tab for low memory computers but maybe not so much for mid-higher range computers.

  9. Gargoyle
    We can't stop here...
    23 Dec '08, 5:51 pm

    Brilliant!

  10. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    23 Dec '08, 6:05 pm

    It won't let me download it!

  11. Leonardo
    F@H Reign of Terror is back!
    23 Dec '08, 6:46 pm
    It won't let me download it!

    Of course it won't, you're out of memory. Close some tabs! sheesh

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