the link in the suspended header to add url to whitelist does not add url to whitelist

The new feature to allow to restore suspended tabs after a update is great. But I just found that it listed even the suspended tabs that I had closed before the update. Hence when restoring even the closed tabs got restored.

As reported by Mohanraj:

I have multiple windows of chrome open in multiple workspaces. I organize the tabs logically by workspace/window. It would be great if the extension can support / recognize multiple windows. Especially when recovering from crash.. or during updates.
After the update this morning, all the suspended tabs from multiple windows were merged into 1 window. After restoring, I have to manually arrange the tabs (over 40) again into the 4 windows I keep in different workspaces.

Hi, first of all great extension which I terribly needed. here is my problem :

I'm using Chrome with ubuntu (11.04), and whenever I re-open chrome (after a restart of my computer for example), something in Chrome (I suppose the extension because nothing else has changed and it didn't do that before) takes up a whole core undefinitely ; after a while, Chrome is blocked (greyed out and unaccessible), which is I suppose a behavior of the OS preventing a misconducting program from executing.

The weird thing is, if I go to all the tabs (ctrl+tab until I have put the focus once in all open tabs), while chrome is using up all the ressources, then the CPU usage goes down and Chrome does not crash, returning to normal usage.

Weirder thing is, this chrome has a lot of tabs (+ 50), but I use another chrome linked to another account (chrome sessions), and this one has less open tabs, and it does not reproduce the same behavior.

I'm willing to investigate further if you need any help, using any tools necessary, to get some interesting data that might help corner the bug.

Any idea :) ?

when restoring a suspended tab, the url should be refreshed or at least be an option

So annoying.

This is a feature request to have the ability to not automatically suspend the front-facing/foremost selected open tabs in each browser window.

Just channeling a Feb 2013 complaint from the user reviews. Not sure if this has been fixed in the meantime.

removed [the extension] from Chrome. Surprise: IT CLOSES ALL THE TABS YOU HAD SUSPENDED, with NO chance of restoring them (unless you go back in your history - which is useless if you, like me open dozens of tabs every day, and want to reopen a tab you had open some weeks ago).

When resuming from sleep mode (Windows 7), the extension frequently crashes.

A few people seem to have errors about an invalid crx file when trying to install the extension. Need to investigate further.

As suggested by Mauricio Sánchez:
I suggest to add a memory used and amount of tabs open thresholds to start suspending tabs.

When I enter sites into the Whitelist, it doesn't sync with my other computers' Chrome browsers. Not sure if it's supposed to - but if it's not - here's a feature request! 👍
:-)
Thanks,
Eliezer

I'd like a down arrrow key press (or just a scroll event?) trigger the un-suspend.

I use the screen capture feature. Often I'm switching between windows using keyboard, and hit an interesting looking page that's suspended, and I hit the down arrow to scroll... but it just scrolls the captured image... then I notice the big "suspend" message at the top (It's amazing how quickly I've become blind to this enormous message!)... and I have to reach for my mouse to click.

So, ideally, a down arrow press to un-suspend would be great, as that's what I find myself pressing. But any other key would be useful as well.

Sometimes, its nice to run soundcloud, rdio, youtube, etc in the background to play some music or other multimedia for an extended period. Ideally, there'd be some option to prevent auto suspension of a tab like this that is responsible for producing sound.

Such a feature could perhaps utilize the same technique that this extension is using to detect potentially sound producing tabs, or could perhaps even work in concert with this extension:
http://www.mutetab.com/

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs.html#method-captureVisibleTab
A smaller image may help if more optimisation is needed.
This is assuming that html2canvas is more resource intensive.

As reported by Mohanraj:

It is good that you have fixed the problem with the dropdown menu. The new menu looks great too. But I would be a nice addition to have an icon in the url bar (near the bookmark icon) - to suspend the current tab. That way suspending a tab is just 1 click rather than 2 clicks.

1. Can a keyboard shortcut be added for suspending current tab?
2. Can we have a 1 click button for suspending current tab?
3. Can you add an option to somehow visually see if a tab is suspended, (something different to the current dimming of the favicon as I have found it's sometimes not obvious. Maybe overlay a coloured translucent square ontop of the favicon so it's very easy to tell what is suspended and what is not.

http://clip2net.com/s/5PrkFR
I can't click anywhere, I must manually copy URL from address bar and remove encoded characters such as : / spaces etc
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Running 4.74 on Chromium 26 / Debian 7, clicking on the 'Tab suspended: click to reload' header often appears to do nothing immediately. However, if I move to another tab and then back to the just-restored tab, it appears properly un-suspended and the page contents restored. So the work is getting done, but the page doesn't immediately get displayed for some reason. Is this a known behavior, or perhaps an interaction with other extensions?

I'm enjoying The Great Suspender enormously, BTW - thanks!

The icons are missing from the drop down on Windows, but show on OSX.

It would make sense if it is possible to leave tabs open and active when a form is present or filled.

Hi Dean,

It is great to see all the effort you are putting in this extension. It is becoming an indispensable tool in my workflow (I have more than 30 tabs open frequently). Thanks for the recent updates. But I would like to point out a few issues:

. I have multiple windows of chrome open in multiple workspaces. I organize the tabs logically by workspace/window. It would be great if the extension can support / recognize multiple windows. Especially when recovering from crash.. or during updates.

After the update this morning, all the suspended tabs from multiple windows were merged into 1 window. After restoring, I have to manually arrange the tabs (over 40) again into the 4 windows I keep in different workspaces.

Is it possible to just inform us in case of updates and leave the updating to us? Does chrome offer that flexibility? Because if that is possible, I could save my session in Session buddy (maybe reload all tabs - bring them out of suspension) and then do the update and restore the session (session buddy supports windows).

. The pinned status of the suspended tabs are lost during the update. But this is a minor thing and can be ignored.

. It is good that you have fixed the problem with the dropdown menu. The new menu looks great too. But I would be a nice addition to have an icon in the url bar (near the bookmark icon) - to suspend the current tab. That way suspending a tab is just 1 click rather than 2 clicks.

Thanks and keep up the great work,

I really like your extension, but ever since I installed it Chrome (25.0.1364.152) is crashing at least 3 times a day. Do you know what could be causing this?

Thanks!

From Izaak Miller:
You can currently suspend any page immediately from the menu icon, but I would like to see the option to PROTECT a SPECIFIC TAB from the menu. 5 stars if it gets that feature.

It would be great to see a pair of settings that together would easily expose "Enable auto-suspend after 15m only when browser is minimized".

I think it would require that an extension to be able to know whether its parent window is minimized, and I think it could be done with an additional checkbox or in settings:

Easy to draw. Is it easy to implement?

Does not return to scroll position of page, which was before suspend. This is bug or trouble to realise?

after suspending multiple tabs and quitting chrome upon restart those tabs that were pinned (some of which were suspended and some not) do not reappear in their previous state as expected. they do however appear listed on a recovery page from which they can be easily be ctrl clicked and relaunched. problem is manageable

love the extension as chrome eats my 4gb of memory

do you have a firefox version?

awesome job thank you

Full disclosure: this could very well be a misunderstanding on my part as to how the extension works.

After installing The Great Suspender, I configured it to suspend tabs after two hours. Sure enough, two hours later, the "content" of some of my tabs indicated they had been suspended. When I came back to the computer the next day, all the suspended tabs were gone. I could see them in the History list but the tabs were just gone.

Is this how this extension is supposed to work? Maybe I'm missing something obviousl

As reported by Mohanraj:

The pinned status of the suspended tabs are lost during the update.

After Chrome restarts after a crash, The Great Suspender shows the list of tabs that were open before Chrome crashed, and offers the option to "resuspend all tabs" etc. It would be nice to have an X icon next to the name of each open tab in that list so you can kill tabs you no longer want before clicking "resuspend all tabs".

Love this extension - keep up the good work!

I was just browsing away and suddenly my tabs don't have the refresh header anymore, apparently TGS doesn't respond to clicks anymore and all my suspended tabs are lost.

I don't know what caused this, but I can't risk using the extension if this happens..

All is in the title : Clicking on the "Add blablabla to white list" link on a suspended tab does not work:

• No new item shows up in the whitelist TextBox in settings, and the page does effectively behave as a whitelist one (suspended back after the defined inactivity time).

I'm not sure the regression happened on last update, but that's where I noticed it for the first time.
Happens on several computers, running linux & windows, so this is quite a surprise no one logged the bug already :)

Frequently when opening a new tab, the page display will either be blank or be stuck as what was in the previously focused tab. Sometimes it eventually (after several minutes) will display correctly, but not always. These tabs are not suspended, and are way below the time threshold (2 hours). Sometimes duplicating a tab will then cause it to display correctly, but not always. And reloading the tab basically never works. I have screen capturing turned off. This issue persists whether the automatically unsuspend option is active or not. I love this extension, I had been running out of RAM with Chrome and making it barely usable, and this has seemed the perfect fix. I had tried similar extensions, but they don't preserve the page name in the tab title like TGS. Unfortunately, this new issue also causes severe issues in my ability to use Chrome effectively.

Thanks for this nifty extension.

One of the useful features of Chrome is the sync of tabs across multiple devices. Currently, however, if one suspends a page on a desktop using the Great Suspender, one cannot access it (open the suspended page) from one's other devices such as an iPad. It would be great if suspended tabs can be accessed from other devices. Is this something that could be implemented in some future version?

Thanks,

I have a Logitech M505 Mouse, configured to scroll the page on click of mouse wheel
It's set to = center click in my settings.

Sometimes when I click mouse wheel to scroll down a page (activates little circle with 4 arrows to smoothly move around page), the yellow GS bar comes up and my content disappears. I have to click mouse wheel again to get rid of it.
It's not clear to me why this is happening, as it only happens once every 5-6 mouse wheel clicks. But it's annoying.
Wondering if this is on my end or ?

Thx

I let a tab get suspended in which the last thing I did was navigate back a couple times, and was disappointed to see that I couldn't go forward again; the suspension had smashed the forward stack, replacing it with the suspension notice page.

(OS X 10.5.8, Chrome 21.0.1180.90, in case it matters.)

As reported by Mohanraj:

Is it possible to just inform us in case of updates and leave the updating to us? Does chrome offer that flexibility? Because if that is possible, I could save my session in Session buddy (maybe reload all tabs - bring them out of suspension) and then do the update and restore the session (session buddy supports windows).

Just a thought: I am not sure if chrome allows communication between extensions or detecting if other extensions are installed.. but if it does, it would be great if this extension could detect if session buddy is installed and use it to save/restore sessions during the update process.

Even otherwise, wouldn't the following be simpler during a update process:

1. Get list of suspended tabs per windows
2. Reload them (bring out of suspension)
3. Perform update
4. Suspend the tabs with information from step 1

I would say that 4 (and 1) can be skipped if hard to do. I would rather have my session / tab / windows undisturbed during the update. Bringing the tabs out of suspension during an update would be the least disruptive option for me. After update - I can manually suspend them again or rely on the automatic suspension after timeout.

I was using the latest version of this extension with Chrome 27.0.1425.2 dev-m (running on 64-bit Windows 8) and when I would unsuspend tabs, Chrome would crash. After removing this extension, the crashes stopped. Not sure if it was conflicting with another extension or was just the dev version hating on your extension.

Possible issues with multiple windows on a mac.
Also with screen capture on mac.
Both unconfirmed at this point.

Hello,

I LOVE The Great Suspender, and it works so well to minimise memory use on Chrome under my small footprint Linux machines. However, I notice that when tabs are suspended, their URLs are encoded with Hex format for symbols like colon (%3A) and forward-slash (%2F) etc.

Now, when I try to access synced tabs (that are suspended using TGS) from "other devices" using Chrome for Android (which obviously doesn't support extensions), I can still see the URL for the tab (after "...suspended.html=#url="), but since it's encoded with these Hex values instead of absolute characters, it is impossible to open long URLs by going through, copying and pasting and replacing the Hex with true characters etc. - it takes way too long and is cumbersome.

Would it be possible for The Great Suspender to not use this Hex encoding for non alphanumeric chars when it suspends tabs? That way, I would still be able to see what the URL is for the suspended tabs, and simply copy/paste into a new tab on Chrome for Android...

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for creating the useful extension. The page titles of youtube pages doesnt seem to be captured accurately.It just displays "Youtube".This affects when i bookmark the tabs and makes difficult to recognize which video i was watching when i revisit my bookmarks. Thanks

As reported by Mauricio Sánchez:
Popup window appears when suspending a tab that is asking to leave or stay on this page.

When I completely close Chrome with most tabs suspended, and reopen Chrome (say after a reboot), without fail, many (but not all) of the tabs that were suspended when Chrome was exited, are not suspended when chrome is reloaded, resulting in Chrome talking a ridiculously long time to open fully.

Chrome version: 26.0.1410.64 m
Windows 7 64 bit

I've been testing this extension extensively, and it's clear that many times, you are not releasing the chrome.exe process tied to the tab. I realize that you can't do that, as long as another non-suspended tab is tied to that process, but I'm seeing this happen in cases where I've suspended ALL tabs tied to the process. For instance, when i open the Chrome task manager right now, I see 17 processes, but when I look in Task Manager, I see close to 30. This app doesn't help if it doesn't release those processes.

I have several websites in my whitelist but for some reason they still get suspended

• I hate the whole blurry icon thing. Seriously, it really bugs me.
• Text that is too long often spills off the yellow slab
• Can you differentiate the three pieces of information by color? Like, the top rectangle is the title of the website, the middle rectangle is URL, and bottom is click to reload, etc.
• I know the whole "website capture" thing is still in beta, but please please please work on this! If you do this well enough, you might be able to entirely eradicate the blurry icon!

Overall, amazing job. Keep up the great work!

Since the last update, some tabs will immediately (within 1 minute) enter a suspended state again after being resumed.

This most often happens when resuming a tab, and clicking a different tab within 30 seconds (e.g. resuming a series of tabs in order).

I would like to see all the tabs except the focused one suspended when restarting Chrome.

The option "Length of inactivity before tab suspends automatically:" does not work. Once moving away to another tab, the previous tab goes to suspension in less than a minute no matter how the time is set.
I am using the option "Automatically unsuspend when tab gains focus". Once a tab gets suspended after a predefined period of time (for example, 30 minutes), when I revisit the tab, although it is reloaded, as soon as I move away to another tab, it gets suspended again in a few seconds, not staying loaded for 30 minutes. This seems to be annoying when working back and forth between multiple tabs.

UPDATE: Here is what I found. Once a tab with a certain Process ID is suspended, it keeps getting suspended even if I reload by revisiting it.
Please help me. Thanks.