Undoubtedly, Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, the one that most of us use on computers and mobiles. In the specific case of the former, it must be said that sometimes its RAM consumption can be somewhat higher than we would like. For this reason, we did not want to stop recommending a handy extension called The Great Suspender.

Although the developers of Google work so that each new version of Chrome consumes fewer resources than the previous ones, we can't help but consider that even so, some PCs without too much power suffer from the use of this browser. So, in those cases, you have to install a specific application, such as The Great Suspender, which will allow you to eliminate those difficulties.

How it works

The operation of The Great Suspender involves analyzing the tabs you have open in Chrome to stop their activity when too much time has passed without you accessing them. To give you an idea, if you have ten or twelve sites open in different tabs of the same browser window, thanks to this tool, only those you have used recently will continue working.

On the other hand, for the tabs that you have stopped visiting in the last while, The Great Suspender will put to work an option, thanks to which it will be paused, so to speak, resuming its activity when you open it again. As you can see, this is an excellent idea to reduce as much as possible the consumption of resources that currently performs Chrome without having to switch to other browsers.

Installing The Great Suspender is simple since all you have to do is open the Extensions window and search for it, access it from this site, and then add it from the Add to Chrome option. Once this service runs on your computer, you will no longer have to worry about the multiple tabs you have open simultaneously.

What if there are specific sites that I never want to be suspended? In those situations, you have nothing to worry about since The Great Suspender will allow you to list websites that should not be stopped. Thus, those you have added to the list will keep running in the background, avoiding the suspend mode that could prevent some of their processes.

If you want to know how The Great Suspender will warn you that one of the tabs is suspended, all you have to consider is that when you enter it, the legend " tab suspended, click to reload " will appear, which we could translate as " tab suspended, click to reload ." Every time you encounter that message, you must reload the site, although it will take less time than a normal reload.

The Great Suspender also allows you to suspend tabs if you wish since you can click on the extension icon on the top right of Chrome while browsing. This way, you can manually suspend any website you know you won't visit again for a while without waiting for the application to do it automatically after a time.

The user interface of The Great Suspender, even though it is software that remains hidden and represented only by an icon most of the time, we liked it a lot. The truth is that we are in the presence of a simple application from the functional point of view, with a careful design in general, which helps even novice users to take advantage of it without difficulties.

The best

The main strengths of The Great Suspender are its ease of use and efficiency, considering that even if you configure it, it pauses tabs when necessary. In addition, we believe that the user experience is very well achieved, as it has never bothered us or paused sites that should not, and that is something to thank its creators.

The worst thing

What do we think The Great Suspender should improve? A single aspect, which for some will be minor but indeed for others will be more critical, related to the fact that we would like to translate the extension into other languages. It is not that its use in English is impossible, but those who do not speak this language will have some inconveniences or delays that could be avoided straightforwardly.

Rating

In conclusion, The Great Suspender is an extension you must add to Chrome if you use this browser and your PC is not too powerful. With this exciting tool, you will be able to get rid of the background resource consumption of many of the top web pages you visit, and you don't need to be an expert to take advantage of it.