Popular The Great Suspender extension for Chrome claims to reduce memory footprint of the browser (you know how effective it is in doing that when you actually use it) lets you manually suspend all tabs or tabs can be auto-suspended after a specified period of time (you’ll find the setting to configure in Extension options).
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Uninstall Great Suspender Chrome Extension without losing Suspended tabs
The problem users face with this extension is when they uninstall it, they lose all suspended tabs, let us see how to avoid that.
Know this: once the tabs are suspended they’re part of the extension process, when you uninstall TGS extension, they will also be removed, then you’ve to recover them from the browsing history, that can be a daunting task.
First things first, before removing the Great Suspender extension, click on its icon on the toolbar and select ‘Unsuspend All Tabs’.
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Are you using this extension? Have you found the tip useful? Let me know in the comments.
Actually, there is a way around losing all your tabs. Simply install a chrome extension that allows you to pin all your tabs at once (or at all), and then remove it. Theoretically, the tabs should all be saved. Then, you can remove the great suspender, and safely unpin all of your tabs afterwards– back in original condition.
To save tabs lost due to an extension need to install another extension, no thanks.
That worked like a charm ;-)
It’s called Pin all tabs
offered by James Fairbairn
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pin-all-tabs/ggdflfnbccnnmnejiblifjjgeiepdjop
It’s 2019 now, and the ‘Unsuspend All Tabs’ feature no longer works. When I click on that, my suspended Tabs remain suspended, and when you have 15 to 40 tabs all suspended at once, clicking on them and waiting for each one to connect to it’s site one at a time (doing them all at once will cause them to just get stuck with a spinning circle because they max out a computer with less than 16 GB of RAM, I only have 10 GB DDR3 RAM) is a big time waster.
Then there is the matter of what happens after you uninstall the extension. It will not stop leaving messages in your menu bar telling you that you need to give permission to reinstall the Great Suspender every time you launch Chrome. When you click on it to remove it, it makes you click on 2 other pop-ups confirming your decision to uninstall The Great Suspender. It WILL NOT GO AWAY!!!