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Auto-suspend idle tabs to free RAM & speed up slow Chrome. Blocks trackers & malware, warns of data breaches. Free, no sign-up. Too many tabs making Chrome slow? Digital Shield is a free tab suspender and memory saver: it puts idle ones to sleep, frees up RAM, and wakes each one the moment you click it. The same lightweight extension blocks known malware and phishing sites, stops third-party trackers, flags websites that have had a data breach, and adds simple parental controls. No account and no sign-up. ⚡ AUTOMATIC TAB SUSPENDER - SET IT ONCE • Idle tabs hibernate after 5 minutes to 2 hours of inactivity. You choose the timer. • Each one keeps its title, icon and place in your tab bar, and reloads instantly when you return. • Never interrupts you: the page you are on, pinned tabs and anything playing audio stay awake. • Whitelist any site in one click so email, docs and dashboards are never put to sleep. • Built on the browser's native discarding, the same engine as Chrome's Memory Saver. No placeholder pages, so uninstalling never loses anything. • A safe, maintained replacement for The Great Suspender, rebuilt on Manifest V3. Why it works: every open page keeps its own slice of RAM, so 20 of them can easily tie up 2 GB or more. Resting the idle ones hands that RAM back and stops their CPU and battery drain. You feel the speed-up most on laptops, Chromebooks and 4-8 GB machines. 🔍 TAB MANAGER: FIND WHAT IS SLOWING YOU DOWN • Speed Boost scan: memory use, page size and playing media for everything you have open, heaviest first. • Snooze or close any single one in one click. • Remove duplicates instantly, keeping the copy you used most recently. • Focus Mode catches forgotten pages that keep downloading data in the background and stops them (3 free runs). • Memory Savings keeps an estimated running total of what you have reclaimed. • Boost Now (PRO): put everything in the background to sleep at once. 🚫 MALWARE & PHISHING PROTECTION - ON BY DEFAULT • Stops more than 375,000 known scam, phishing and malware websites before they load, including fake bank, crypto-wallet and Microsoft 365 login pages. • A clear warning explains what was stopped. Go back in one click, or continue for this session if you are sure. • The list is built in, so the addresses you visit are never sent anywhere to be checked. 🛡️ TRACKER BLOCKER WITH A LIVE REPORT • Balanced mode stops common high-risk trackers while keeping websites working. • See what each site really does: trackers found vs. stopped, grouped into advertising, social and analytics. • Privacy Grade (A-F) and a 0-100 Safety Score based on the site's HTTPS and security headers. • Tracker Graph shows which companies receive data from the article you are reading. • Link cleaner strips tracking tags such as utm_source, fbclid and gclid automatically. • Built-in pop-up stopper for unwanted windows. • Maximum Security and Work Mode (PRO): stricter protection, or a setting that still allows the analytics some work apps need. • Privacy Sandbox (PRO): swaps Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel scripts for an empty stand-in, so they never run. 🔔 DATA BREACH ALERTS & PASSWORD SAFETY • Instantly see whether the website you are on has suffered a known data breach, with the details of each one. • Password manager (PRO) checks saved passwords against known leaks. Only a short fragment of a one-way hash ever leaves your device, never the password itself. • Email aliases (PRO): a unique +tag address for every shop or service (you+shop7k@gmail.com), so you can spot who leaked or sold your address and filter it. Works with providers that support plus addressing, including Gmail, Outlook and iCloud Mail. 👨👩👧 PARENTAL CONTROLS & SAFE BROWSING FOR KIDS • Safe Search: force strict SafeSearch on major search engines. • Instant Pause: freeze all browsing in one tap; only the Parent PIN unlocks it. • Age filters (PRO): filter adult content with presets for under 10, 10–13 and 14+. • Screen time (PRO): a daily time limit, Bedtime Lock, and your own website allow and deny lists. • 72-hour browsing history (PRO) for a quick parental review. 🧰 HANDY EVERYDAY TOOLS • Clear cookies or cache for the current site only, without signing you out everywhere else. • Reader mode: strip pop-ups and sidebars for clean, distraction-free reading. • Policy highlighter: open any privacy policy and it pulls out what the company collects, shares and keeps. • Dark mode for every website, an element hider, and a firewall that lists every domain a page contacts, with your own rules for each (PRO). • Private notes and secure bookmarks kept in your browser behind a PIN (PRO). 👍 MADE FOR • Students, researchers and developers who keep dozens of pages open • Laptops, Chromebooks and older computers that keep slowing to a crawl • Families who want safer browsing for their kids • Anyone tired of being tracked, scammed or slowed down 🔒 YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • No ads, and no analytics or tracking code inside the extension. • Notes, passwords, settings and browsing statistics stay in your browser, not on our servers. • The few features that have to go online, such as breach lookups and licence checks, are listed in our privacy policy along with exactly what each one sends. • Built on Manifest V3, the current extension platform. FREE OR PRO? Included at no cost: the automatic suspender, one-click snooze, duplicate cleanup, malware and phishing protection, Balanced mode, the live report, Privacy Grade, breach alerts, Safe Search, Instant Pause, the link cleaner, the pop-up stopper, reader mode and single-site cleaning. PRO unlocks everything marked PRO above. QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK How do I reduce Chrome's memory usage? Turn on the automatic suspender and pick a timer. Idle pages hand that RAM back while staying right where they are. Will I lose my work when a tab goes to sleep? It reloads when you come back, and most sites return you to where you were. For anything where you type a lot, protect that site in one click and it is never touched. What happens if I remove Digital Shield? Nothing is lost. There are no placeholder pages, so everything you had open stays exactly where it is. Does it replace my antivirus? No. It blocks known dangerous websites inside the browser and works alongside your antivirus and the browser's own Safe Browsing. Will it break websites? Balanced mode is designed to keep sites working. If something misbehaves, allow that site with one click. Does it work on a Chromebook or an older laptop? Yes. Machines with less RAM benefit the most. Which languages are supported? English, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Install Digital Shield, set your sleep timer once, and get a faster, safer, more private browser back.
Nov 9, 2026
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