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Prevents Chrome from suspending designated tabs and reloading them upon switching. For further information, visit chrome://discards. Disable Tab Suspension for Chrome™ Keep every tab alive. No more surprise reloads, lost form entries, or frozen web apps. Have you ever switched back to a tab only to watch it reload from scratch? The half-written email vanishes, the long article jumps back to the top, the video restarts, the dashboard you were monitoring goes blank while it fetches everything again. That is Chrome's built-in tab discarding (also known as tab suspension or "memory saver") at work. To free up memory, Chrome silently unloads tabs it thinks you are not using and reloads them the moment you click back. On a fast machine with plenty of RAM this behaviour is often more of a nuisance than a help. Disable Tab Suspension for Chrome™ puts you back in control. With a single click it tells Chrome that your tabs must not be automatically discarded, so they stay exactly as you left them, for as long as you leave them open. HOW IT WORKS Chrome exposes a per-tab setting called "auto discardable". When it is switched off for a tab, Chrome's memory-saving logic skips that tab entirely. This extension flips that switch for every tab you have open, and it keeps doing so automatically as you open new tabs, navigate to new pages, or restore tabs after a restart. There is nothing to configure and nothing to remember: turn it on once and forget about it. You can verify that it is working at any time. Open a new tab, type chrome://discards in the address bar, and look at the "Auto Discardable" column. Every row will show a cross, meaning Chrome has been told to leave that tab alone. The extension's popup even includes a one-click shortcut that takes you straight to that page. KEY FEATURES • One-click on/off toggle. Click the toolbar icon and press the power button to enable or disable protection for all tabs at once. The icon changes so you can always see the current state at a glance. • Applies to every tab, automatically. New tabs, newly loaded pages, restored sessions and replaced tabs are all covered the instant they appear. You never have to protect tabs one by one. • Zero configuration. There are no lists to maintain, no timers to set, and no options page to study. Install it, switch it on, and get on with your work. • Built-in verification. A shortcut to chrome://discards lets you confirm with your own eyes that tab discarding has been disabled. • Extremely lightweight. The extension runs as a tiny background service worker that only wakes up when a tab changes. It does not inject scripts into web pages, does not slow down browsing, and uses a negligible amount of memory itself. • Privacy first. The extension asks for only a single permission: local storage, which it uses to remember whether you switched it on or off. It does not read the addresses or contents of your tabs, it does not track you, it does not collect analytics, and it sends nothing to any server. Your browsing stays your business. • Available in more than forty languages. WHO IS IT FOR? • Developers and designers who keep local servers, documentation and web tools open all day and need them to respond instantly. • Traders, analysts and operations staff who watch live dashboards or monitoring consoles and cannot afford a tab reloading at the wrong moment. • Writers, students and researchers who work in web-based editors and forms, and who have lost unsaved text to an unexpected reload one time too many. • Power users with dozens of tabs open who would rather use the RAM they paid for than have Chrome guess which tabs they will need next. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO This extension is deliberately focused. It is not a tab manager, a session saver or a memory dashboard. It does one job — stop Chrome from discarding your tabs — and does it reliably. If you later want Chrome's memory saving back, click the toolbar icon and switch it off; the change applies immediately, and uninstalling restores Chrome's default behaviour completely. Note that Chrome may still discard a tab in extreme low-memory situations, and some tabs (such as Chrome's own internal pages) cannot be controlled by extensions. For the ordinary websites and web apps you use every day, this extension keeps them loaded and ready. GETTING STARTED 1. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store. 2. Click the toolbar icon (you may need to pin it from the extensions menu). 3. Press the power button so the status reads "Enabled". 4. Optionally, click "Go to chrome://discards" to confirm that every tab is now protected. That's it. From now on your tabs stay where you left them. If you find Disable Tab Suspension for Chrome™ useful, please take a moment to rate it in the Web Store — it helps other people discover the extension and keeps development going. Questions, suggestions or bug reports are always welcome through the homepage link in the popup. Stop reloading. Start working.