Tabveil — Tab Suspender & Memory Saver

Put idle tabs to sleep with the browser's native discard. Save memory, keep your tabs, optionally protect unsaved forms. No tracking

Tabveil puts the tabs you are not using to sleep so Chrome uses less memory, and wakes them the moment you click. Your tabs stay exactly where they are. Tabveil uses Chrome's built-in tab discarding. A sleeping tab keeps its title, its icon and its place in the tab strip. There is no placeholder page, so if you ever remove Tabveil, your tabs are untouched. What it does - Sleeps idle tabs after the time you choose: 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, 2 hours, 4 hours, or never. - Never sleeps the tab you are using, pinned tabs, tabs playing sound, browser pages, or tabs you mark "Keep awake". - Checks for unsaved forms first (optional): a half-written message is not put to sleep. - "Never sleep" list for sites, with wildcards, plus text import and export. - Popup and side panel show every tab with a moon that wanes as it gets closer to sleep, and tell you why a tab is staying awake. - Sessions: save up to 10 windows with their tab groups (names and colors) and restore them later, keeping split-view pairs on Chrome versions that support them. - Workspaces: keep up to 3 separate sets of tabs for different projects. - Stash and Later: set tabs aside in one step and keep a list of links to read later. - Snooze: put a tab or tab group to sleep until a time you choose. - Command palette: search your tabs and run Tabveil's actions from the keyboard. - Close duplicate tabs safely (pinned tabs and tabs playing sound are left alone). - Keyboard shortcuts and right-click actions: sleep this tab, sleep the others, wake all, keep awake. - Full Arabic and English interface with proper right-to-left layout. Light and dark themes follow your system. Why not just Chrome's Memory Saver? Memory Saver decides on its own. Tabveil lets you choose the timer, protect the sites and tabs that matter, keep forms safe, and save sessions. It also stops Memory Saver from discarding tabs you marked "Keep awake". What Tabveil can't see. Tabveil protects tabs playing sound and detected call addresses, but it cannot detect muted picture-in-picture or screen sharing on other sites; mark those tabs "Keep awake". Chrome reloads a page when it wakes. Privacy first. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your tabs and URLs are never sent to Tabveil. A new install opens a welcome page in a normal background tab, and removing Tabveil opens a goodbye page; their addresses carry only the Tabveil version and your language. Optional Pro features use Tabveil's license server, which receives the license key and an install id and stores the email linked to the license. If you turn on Pro session sync, saved tab addresses go through Google's Chrome sync under your Google account.