Google has eliminated The Great Suspender, an extension used by Chrome users who tend to have a lot of tabs open because it contains, in the words of the message, ‘malware’.
This left users with some questions and concerns.
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First, what happened? Well, there was concern last year that the extension contained bad code after the extension changed owner. More details here on GitHub.
Yesterday, Google pulled the plug on the extension and told users that it was now blocked, and all of its listings in the Google Chrome Web Store now result in 404s.
If you were a user, the tabs you suspended are now gone. Well, you can still recycle it, but it’s a little faff. This involves searching the history of the extension (klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg) in your history and then extracting the URL from the string (this is after the uri =).
Others want to know what to do next.
There are some extensions you can use that do similar things. Session Buddy and OneTab come to mind.
If you would rather have a paid service, I have been using Partizion for the past few months, and I find it really reliable and once you get used to it, it works very well.
Or, you know, you can limit the number of open tabs.