The Great Suspender Alternative
The Great Suspender was removed for malware. Nest is the safe, maintained way to stop tabs eating memory — snooze tabs, save sessions, and organize your workspace.
Nest vs The Great Suspender
The Great Suspender suspended inactive tabs to save RAM — until it was removed for malware. Nest gives you the memory relief plus organization and session restore, from a maintained, transparent extension.
| Nest | The Great Suspender | |
|---|---|---|
| Frees memory from inactive tabs | ✓ | Yes (removed) |
| Available & maintained in 2026 | ✓ | — |
| Transparent, local-first by default | ✓ | — |
| Snooze tabs and auto-reopen later | ✓ | — |
| Save & restore named sessions | ✓ | — |
| Organize tabs into categories | ✓ | — |
| Notes on tabs & categories | ✓ | — |
| Optional AI tab actions | ✓ | — |
| Works free, no account required | ✓ | ✓ |
Why you need a Great Suspender replacement
The Great Suspender was a favorite for cutting Chrome’s memory use, but it was removed from the Web Store in 2021 after a new owner injected malicious code. If you still have it installed, it is unmaintained and unsafe — time to move on.
How Nest replaces it — safely
Nest frees memory a smarter way: snooze the tabs you’re not using (closing them entirely, so they use zero RAM) and get them back exactly when you need them — plus everything the original couldn’t do.
A safer approach to tab memory
Suspending tabs in place was always a workaround. Snoozing and saving sessions solves the same problem — runaway memory — while keeping your workspace organized and recoverable.
FAQ
In 2021 The Great Suspender changed owners and a new version added malicious code, so Google removed it from the Chrome Web Store and automatically disabled it for users. The original, safe versions are no longer available, which is why so many people now look for a trustworthy replacement.
For freeing memory the most reliable replacement is a combination of Chrome’s built-in Memory Saver (which suspends inactive tabs automatically) plus a tab manager like Nest to snooze, save, and reopen tabs on demand. Nest is open about what it stores, keeps core features local-first, and adds organization and session restore on top of memory savings.
No. The version pulled from the Web Store contained tracking/malicious code, and it is no longer maintained or available through official channels. You should remove any leftover copy and switch to a maintained, transparent alternative.
Nest takes a deliberate approach: instead of leaving suspended placeholder tabs, you snooze tabs (which closes them and frees their memory completely) and Nest brings them back on schedule or on demand. Combined with Chrome’s Memory Saver for automatic suspension, you get the memory relief The Great Suspender provided — without the abandoned codebase.
Replace The Great Suspender for good
Install Nest free to free memory by snoozing tabs, save sessions so you can close tabs without losing them, and keep your workspace organized — from a maintained, transparent extension.
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