Keep your tabs.
Unload the idle ones.
TabRelief safely unloads eligible idle tabs using Chrome's native discard behavior, helping reduce unnecessary browser resource usage without closing your browsing session.
Fast relief without a tab-management project.
Open TabRelief, choose how aggressively to treat idle tabs, and run relief. No account, no cloud service, no browsing-data cleanup.
One-click relief
Balanced mode targets tabs idle 10+ minutes. Deep mode can target tabs idle 2+ minutes.
Protects active work
Active, pinned, audible, loading and non-discardable tabs are excluded from relief.
Live activity
See session state update while the popup is open and actual completed/total progress during relief.
No account. No analytics. No cloud processing.
TabRelief does not transmit your browsing activity, tab state or system-memory information to the developer or third parties.
- ✓No access to tab URLs or titles
- ✓No browsing history, cookies or passwords
- ✓No host permissions
Your tab remains in the tab strip.
Eligible idle tabs are discarded from memory rather than closed. When you return to a discarded tab, Chrome reloads it normally.
- ✓Tab order stays intact
- ✓Pinned tabs stay protected
- ✓Browsing data is not cleared
Simple enough to use every day.
TabRelief v1.0.0 is being prepared for the Chrome Web Store.