#Brave tab suspender update#

#Brave tab suspender update#

In the 7.1.8 release of the extension, a code update included scripts that tracked user behaviour among other things. They modified the code to include malware. The mystery buyer did exactly what everyone feared. Why would someone buy it? The Great Unsuspended Malware The extension is open-source, which means it was never intended to make money. No-one knew who bought it, yet it was sitting in the browser of over 2 million internet users. There were plenty of suspicions about the sale of The Great Suspender. This is massively time consuming and I’m sure the number of users was weighing on them somewhat. Every time Google or Microsoft release a browser update, small tweaks would be needed to keep the extension running. With the unexpected success that came with The Great Suspender, the developer who created the extension was unable to dedicate the time or resources to keeping it maintained. I understand that Google doesn’t really want features like this in Chrome, but you would imagine over 2 million people using something suggests it would be a fairly popular feature. Over 2 million people installed this extension. The extension’s developer likely never predicted how popular it would grow. The Great Suspender was a massive success. At the click of a button, it would re-load and let me continue where I left off. So if I opened a website and didn’t come back to that tab for 30 seconds, it would stop eating resources. The Great Suspender is a Chrome extension which lets you set a certain period of time, after which Chrome tabs would be paused. What is The Great Suspender? Why did it go rogue? It’s all a fairly typical tech story to be honest. Story time: The Life And Times Of The Great Suspender And yes, I do realise my leaving open 30 tabs at a time is not really Google’s problem. Thankfully, there was a solution to shut down unused tabs and save some of that memory.

It’s the necessary evil that won’t go away. Whether it be for work or some application that’s built specifically for Chrome. The biggest reason is that Chrome is a hungry hippo when it comes to my laptop’s resources.īut I still have to use Chrome.

From just not liking Google very much (well, beyond the Pixel 5) to privacy concerns, there are lots of reasons I try to steer clear of Chrome. I’ve also tried to use Firefox or Brave browser more in the past. I’ve swapped over to using Safari for most of my browsing these days.

Unfortunately, The Great Suspender ended up in the wrong hands and was filled with malware, but can you still use this Chrome extension safely? Chrome Is A Hungry Hippo Turning to extensions like The Great Suspender meant you could control how long tabs claimed these resources. Available now on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux.If you’re a Chrome browser user, you may have noticed it likes to slow down your laptop with massive consumption of resources. Brave even lets you contribute to your favorite publishers automatically with Basic Attention Token. Brave is an open-source, privacy-protecting, performant web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default from the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla & Firefox.īrave blocks the ads and trackers that slow you down, chew up your bandwidth, and invade your privacy.