Discard stale tabs

Automatically discard inactive, unpinned, inaudible tabs after 15 minutes. This frees up substantial CPU and memory resources from supposedly "idle" background tabs. No tab or content permissions are required for this extension.

Discard stale tabs - Free up CPU and memory resources

Discard stale tabs is a Firefox add-on that automatically removes inactive, unpinned, and inaudible tabs to free up CPU and memory resources. It improves performance by optimizing background tabs without requiring any tab or content permissions.

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By: BB

Daily users: 1

Version: 0.0.2 (Last updated: 2021-04-18)

Version code: 5217438

Creation date: 2021-04-17

Firefox on Android: Yes

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Permissions:

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Size: 8.68K

Source: Firefox Browser Add-ons

Ranking

# 84,686 ▲ 308

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Android

Not available on Edge

Add-on safety

Risk impact

Discard stale tabs does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Low Request access to the following domains:

Risk likelihood

Discard stale tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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