Tab Relief
Automatically sleep idle tabs to reduce Chrome memory use
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Too many tabs slowing Chrome down? Set Tab Relief to automatically put unused tabs to sleep and reduce memory use without closing them. Click a sleeping tab to reload it when you need it. Try it free for 14 days. No credit card required, and no automatic billing after the trial.
PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Niche: browser productivity extensions · 186 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that suspends idle tabs and reloads them on click uses standard extension APIs (tabs, discarding, storage) and a simple billing/trial layer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 328 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #146 of 329 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tab Doctor · ph · 2026-09-18 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Time to Break · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Tabcove · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- TabVault · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Back Pocket · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Tab Freezer · hn · 2025-11-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ResumeTabs · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TabPurr | Save & Restore Chrome Tabs · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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