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"The Marvellous Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Totally based on the original "The Great Suspender" but without ADS tracking and problems explainedin this GitHub issue.

Once installed and enabled, this extension will automaticallysuspend tabs that have not been used for a default, or user-configurable, time interval. As a result, resources such as memory and CPU that the tab was consuming are freed.

If you have suggestions or problems using the extension, pleasesubmit a bug or a feature request.

If you have lost tabs from your browser you can read a guide for how to recover themhere.

The Marvellous Suspender isavailable via the official Chrome Web Store.

For more information on the permissions required for the extension, please refer to this gitHub issue: (greatsuspender#213)

1. Download thelatest available version and unarchive to your preferred location (whichever suits you).
2. UsingGoogle Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://extensions/ and enable "Developer mode" in the upper right corner.
3. Click on theLoad unpacked extension... button.
4. Browse to the src directory of the unarchived folder and confirm.

If you have completed the above steps, the "welcome" page will open indicating successful installation of the extension.

Be sure to unsuspend all suspended tabs before removing any other version of the extension or they will disappear forever!

Dependencies: openssl, npm.

Clone the repository and run these commands:

npm installnpm run generate-keynpm run build

It should say:

Done, without errors.

The extension in crx format will be inside the build/crx/ directory. You can drag it into [extensions] (chrome://extensions) to install locally.

Contributions are very welcome. Feel free to submit pull requests for new features and bug fixes. For new features, ideally you would raise an issue for the proposed change first so that we can discuss ideas. This will go a long way to ensuring your pull request is accepted.

Feel free to help me to localize this extension in any language, you can do it using Crowdin connecting tohttps://crowdin.com/project/tms. If your mothertongue language is not available please "ping me" onTwitter orsubmit a feature request.

This work is licensed under a GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v2)

This package uses thehtml2canvas library written by Niklas von Hertzen.It also uses the indexedDb wrapperdb.js written by Aaron Powell.Thank you also toBrowserStack for providing free chrome testing tools.