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Drowzy - Tab Suspender & Memory Saver

FeaturedEstablished publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Puts tabs you are not using to sleep so Chrome stays fast. Light, private, no tracking, open source.

Users
3,000
+1,000 in 30 days
Rating
4.9 / 5
+0.02 in 30 days
Ratings
25
+4 in 30 days
Store rank
#17K
#14K among extensions
Version
1.6.0
updated 12 Oct 2026

Users

monthly, 8 months
01,5003,000Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 3,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 8 months
01225Mar 2026Jul 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 25 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Drowzy - Tab Suspender & Memory Saver

Too many tabs dragging Chrome down? Drowzy is a lightweight Chrome tab suspender and memory saver that puts unused tabs to sleep, so Chrome stays faster when you keep a lot of tabs open. Unlike older tab suspenders, Drowzy uses Chrome's built-in system for freeing tabs from memory. Your tabs are not replaced with custom suspended pages or chrome-extension:// URLs. They stay as normal Chrome tabs, and if you uninstall Drowzy, your tabs are still there. ▸ HOW IT WORKS • Tabs you haven't touched for 15 minutes go to sleep automatically by default. The timer goes from 1 minute to 4 hours, or you can turn it off and suspend tabs by hand. • Sleeping tabs stop using memory but stay right in your tab bar, with their title and icon. • Click a sleeping tab and Chrome reloads it in place. ▸ DROWZY VS CHROME MEMORY SAVER Chrome's built-in Memory Saver works automatically in the background. Drowzy gives you more control: your own timer, manual suspend and wake buttons, a whitelist, per-tab Keep this tab awake, sessions, stats, and clear reasons when a tab will not sleep. You can use both. Drowzy does not turn Chrome Memory Saver off. ▸ PROTECTED TABS Protected by default, and each protection is a switch you control: • The tab you're using • Pinned tabs • Tabs playing audio • Tabs with unsaved form input, if form protection is enabled • Any site on your whitelist • Any tab you mark with Keep this tab awake ▸ FEATURES • One-click Suspend Others, Suspend this tab, and Wake All • Drowzy tells you why a tab will not sleep and links to the setting that would change it • Keep this tab awake holds one tab awake without whitelisting the whole site • A whitelist that accepts full addresses or patterns like site.com/docs/*, with import and export • Save and restore whole windows of tabs as named sessions, with a JSON export for backup • Popup and Chrome side panel, with tab search • Close duplicate tabs in one click • Keyboard shortcuts for suspend, suspend others, and wake all, changeable on Chrome's shortcuts page • Right-click menu for quick suspend and whitelist actions • Stats for how many tabs have slept today and all time, with an estimate of memory saved • Dark and light themes • Settings that sync across your Chrome profile • Available in 50+ languages, with right-to-left support ▸ PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No data collection and no tracking • No accounts, no analytics, no external servers • Everything stays on your device, in Chrome's own storage • Fully open source, so anyone can check exactly what it does Free, open source, and easy to use. Add Drowzy to Chrome and let your tabs rest.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days+1,000+50.0%+4+0.02
6 months+2,973+11011.1%+24−0.08

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Drowzy - Tab Suspender & Memory Saver appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
keep awake#33+2
memory#36−4

Version history

16 versions recorded
1.6.012 Oct 2026
1.5.03 Sep 2026
1.4.05 Aug 2026
1.3.83 Jul 2026
1.3.77 Jun 2026
1.3.630 May 2026
1.3.516 May 2026
1.3.414 May 2026

Details

Category
Functionality & UI
First seen
3 Mar 2026
Size
622 KB
Languages
de, en, en-GB, en-US, fil, id, sw, ms
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
ml3dev.github.io
Support
github.com
Extension ID
oijfnkaakdamnijjgehjpfmclhigmapa

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 2, likelihood 1
Permissions
tabsstoragealarmscontextMenusscriptingsidePanelfavicon

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