TabQuell vs OneTab vs The Great Suspender: Honest Comparison

OneTab: The list approach

OneTab collapses all your tabs into a single list page. It's great for decluttering, but you lose the visual context of your tabs. You have to actively restore tabs from the list, which changes your workflow.

The Great Suspender: The visibility problem

The Great Suspender suspends tabs but replaces them with a placeholder page. You can see something is suspended, but the original favicon and title are lost until you reload. It also had security concerns that led many users to seek alternatives.

TabQuell: Invisible freezing

TabQuell takes a different approach: your tabs stay exactly where they are, looking completely normal. They're frozen in the background using Chrome's native discarding API, but you'd never know it. Click a frozen tab and it reloads instantly.

When to use each

• OneTab: When you want to archive tabs and don't mind losing visual tab bar presence
• TabQuell: When you want automatic memory savings without changing how your browser looks or works

The bottom line

If you're a tab hoarder who wants memory savings without thinking about it, TabQuell's invisible approach is designed for you. Your tabs stay visible, just sleeping.