

Reinstalling the extension will not enable you to do any sort of recovery. Please note, uninstalling the extension will also permanently remove all extension data including tab history and extension options. If you failed to unsuspend all tabs before uninstalling and have lost tabs, please refer to the section below entitled "How to recover lost tabs without The Great Suspender". Please note that if using the 'Unsuspend all tabs' option, you will need to do this once for each chrome window you have open. Or more manually by visiting every suspended tab and manually reloading it. This can be done easily by clicking the 'Unsuspend all tabs' option in the extension popup menu. This is the only way to prevent those tabs from disappearing. If you want to uninstall the extension, please unsuspend all tabs before doing so. What is the safe way to remove the extension? And in the event of an update, a session restore point is automatically created in the Session History page and can be restored manually.
#Tab suspender causing crashes update#
The extension does come with an inbuilt tab recovery system that will automatically detect and reload lost tabs in aftermath of an update or extension crash.

When the extension updates or is disabled or uninstalled, this process is killed and all tabs that belong to it are removed from the browser.įor this reason, I try to keep the number of updates to the extension to a minimum. This means that the tab is now controlled by the extension process. The Great Suspender works by redirecting a tab to a new url in order to 'suspend' it. My suspended tab says "This site cannot be reached"
#Tab suspender causing crashes how to#
How to recover lost tabs without The Great Suspender How to recover lost tabs with The Great Suspender What is the safe way to update the extension Why do my tabs disappear when the extension updates or is removed? This is the number one pain point of the extension and here I will attempt to address why this is an issue, and what you can do if affected by it. This is the official issue for users trying to recover from tab loss due to an update of the extension, or following removal/disabling of the extension.
