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Tab Discarder
Free up Chrome memory at will, without closing your tabs.
Manually discard inactive Chrome tabs and tab groups to free memory while protecting tabs you choose.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Tab Discarder to solve a problem I kept running into with my old MacBook Air.
I’m someone who always has way too many tabs open. I’ll be working on something, switch to another task, but leave the previous tabs open because I know I’ll come back to them. Honestly, those open tabs are also little reminders of things I still need to finish.
The problem? My old MacBook Air couldn’t keep up. Chrome would start lagging, and accidentally closing and reopening the browser with 20+ tabs felt like asking my laptop to run a marathon.
I didn’t want to close my tabs, and I didn’t want Chrome deciding when to unload them either. I just wanted a simple way to free up memory whenever I needed to.
That’s how Tab Discarder started.
The goal was to keep it as simple as possible: open the extension, choose which tabs or tab groups to discard, and free up memory with a click. Your tabs stay right where they are and reload when you return.
As I built it, I added a few things I personally needed, like protecting pinned tabs, tabs playing audio, and important websites from being discarded.
No complicated setup, no automatic tab management, no tracking. Just a lightweight tool that does one thing well.
I built it for myself, but figured there are probably others out there with too many tabs and not enough RAM.
I’d love to hear how you manage your tabs. Are you someone who closes everything, or do you keep 30 tabs open because you might need them someday? 😅
Thanks for checking out Tab Discarder!
About Tab Discarder on Product Hunt
“Free up Chrome memory at will, without closing your tabs.”
Tab Discarder was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #399 on the daily leaderboard. Manually discard inactive Chrome tabs and tab groups to free memory while protecting tabs you choose.
On the analytics side, Tab Discarder competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 826.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Tab Discarder performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Tab Discarder?
Tab Discarder was hunted by Nikhil Reddy. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Nikhil Reddy