Pause, resume, or close tabs
(Updated: )Tabs you don't need right now still use Mac memory and processor power. Closing them frees up resources, but you lose the pages you may need later.
Browser Care lets you pause tabs to free up resources and keep them in Chrome, or close the ones you no longer need.
Pause tabs
Pausing a tab frees up memory and processor power without closing the tab.
When you resume a paused tab, changes you haven't saved on the page, such as text you entered in a form, can be lost. Save your work before you pause a tab.
Pause the top consumers at once
In Top Consumers, click Pause These Tabs. If only one tab is in the list, the button says Pause This Tab.
Browser Care pauses the tabs.
Pause a single tab
Hold the pointer over a tab in Top Consumers, in the All Tabs list, or over the Current Tab row.
Click Pause (
).
Browser Care pauses the tab.
Pause all tabs except the current one
In the Overview tab, hold the pointer over the Current Tab row.
Click More (···), then choose "Pause all other tabs".
Browser Care pauses every tab except the one you're working in, in all windows of your current Chrome profile. Tabs that are already paused stay paused.
Resume tabs
You can resume a paused tab from Browser Care or from Chrome.
Resume a tab in Browser Care
Paused tabs appear dimmed in the list, with a pause icon on the tab icon. You can resume a paused tab from the All Tabs list, or from the Current Tab row if you're on that tab. Paused tabs don't appear in Top Consumers, because they're no longer among the tabs that use the most resources.
Hold the pointer over the paused tab.
Click Resume (
).
Resume all other tabs at once
In the Overview tab, hold the pointer over the Current Tab row.
Click the more button (···), then choose "Resume all other tabs".
Browser Care resumes the paused tabs in all windows of your current Chrome profile.
Resume a tab in Chrome
In Chrome, a paused tab shows a Browser Care extension page that says "This tab took a nap" and lists the name and domain of the paused page. To resume the tab:
Go to the paused tab.
Click Wake It Up.
Close a tab or a group of tabs
Closing a tab removes it from Chrome. To keep a tab but free up the resources it uses, pause it instead.
Close a single tab
Hold the pointer over a tab in Top Consumers, in the All Tabs list, or over the Current Tab row.
Click Close (
).
Browser Care closes the tab.
Close a group of tabs
When you group tabs by domain or window in the All Tabs list, you can close all tabs in a group: hold the pointer over the group name and click Close Group.
Close Group closes every tab in the group at once. Review the tabs in the group before you close it.
You can also close duplicate tabs and old tabs in bulk.
