Organize Your Browsing With This Chrome Dashboard Extension
Chrome: The Great Suspender is an extension that I recommend to anyone who has ever used the Google Chrome browser because it is a great way to reduce browser memory usage as little as possible. While it’s a delicious food on its own, I also recommend pairing The Great Suspender with the Chrome extension Cluster .
Like good wine, Cluster enhances the pleasure you already have in pausing tabs by giving you a simple toolbar to view and manage all of your open tabs. Best of all, it shows you the valid URLs of the blocked sites, not the funny chrome-extension: // URL that you would otherwise see in your address bar.
Cluster itself is a great way to organize the tabs that populate your active browsing session. Its toolbar lists the titles of each individual tab in your browser, making it much easier to find your websites, and you can keep an active browsing session to come back to later. This is especially useful if you don’t want a lot of tabs to clutter your browser, but don’t have time to bookmark them right away. (You can also export all open tabs as a CSV or JSON file.)
The Cluster dashboard also has two small icons that you can use to immediately pause or unpause all tabs in the browser window. You can also do this with The Great Suspender icon, but I like to use it as a feature directly in the tab management interface.
While Cluster makes it easy to move tabs between different browser windows, I find its sorting tools even more useful. While they won’t reorder your tabs in the browser window, you can at least organize your tabs in the cluster toolbar alphabetically or by their domains.
The cluster can also sync its settings between different desktops and / or laptops, which is great when you want to load sites from saved windows in another browser. Yes, you can just sync your bookmarks, but a folder full of links is a little less elegant – and harder to sort without adding another extension – than the pretty Cluster toolbar.