It may be an annoying process, but it’s better than losing any work or incredible memes you had open. It’s basically the same process as above: you search for the extension’s ID, klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg, then open the tabs and remove the junk.
Reddit user avatar_ENG also discovered you can still get those tabs back by searching your Chrome history. Deleting everything before the URL and hitting enter will bring the page back to life. Google Chrome has disabled the extension The Great Suspender for containing malware, and some users have lost tabs because of it. There will be a ton of text that looks something like this:Ĭhrome-extension://klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/suspended.html#ttl=%22Dawn%22%20Dario%20Marianelli%20(Pride%20%26%20Prejudice)%20Piano%20solo%20%26%20Tutorial%20-%20P.%20Barton%20-%20YouTube&pos=0&uri=Īt the end will be the address for the page you were on. If the tabs were open, you can go to them and click into the URL bar. When tab became a visible again, it can be automatically restored to initial. This extension catches inactive, idle or forgotten tabs and suspend / park them with the freeing 80 memory, device resources and battery life.
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If you used the extension and are looking to get your tabs back, the steps are simple, if a bit tedious. Unloading tabs will free memory and reduce load on the device, saving battery and less heat. The warning Chrome gives users if they have the extension installed. Given Chrome’s tendency to hog much of a computer’s memory, the extension was a simple way to keep your browser moving a bit faster, without actually forcing you to close old tabs. Return to the tab, and you could click to reload back to where you were. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was.
The tool would automatically shut down tabs that you hadn’t looked at for a while, replacing them with a blank gray screen. The Great Suspender was a hugely useful extension - minus the malware, at least - for keeping your browser running smoothly. Some are worried about losing their tabs, but Reddit users have found a way to recover them (via XDA-Developers’ Mishaal Rahman). Google has apparently blocked The Great Suspender extension from Chrome, with existing users now receiving a message that it has “been disabled because it contains malware.” It’s also been removed from the Chrome Web Store, with any links to it now leading to a 404 page.