Thegreatsuspender: Chrome 79.0.3945.79 - unable to restore tabs

[Smir]

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• Extension version: 7.1.0
• Browser name & version: Chrome Version 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Operating system & version: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

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Yesterday Chrome updated to 79.0.3945.79 and now the addon cannot restore all the tabs. From my 700+ tabs it restores about 15. The tabs are there in the task manager, but not responding as you'd usually except them to.

[delusionn]

Smir, I had the same issue, and I'm also a heavy tab user, about half your tabs. Same issue where processes were running, but not showing visible windows. I also use two different Chrome users to allow different logins to a few sites I need management and user level experiences on, and I use Session Buddy. So my first clue that something more than just losing most of my tabs was going on was when SB was telling me I actually DID have ~600 tabs open, since I had used it to try to restore my previous session.

After cleaning up my old session I think what may work for you is this:

• Install Session Buddy if you don't already have a session saver program, since you don't want to lose your tabs. This isn't permanent.
• Save your current session (you may have to clean up any redundant windows due to this whole mess later).
• Uninstall The Great Suspender extension.
• Close and re-open Chrome.
• Re-install The Great Suspender.
• Use SB to restore your old session if anything went wrong, and uninstall SB once you're done.

When I did this, my prior sessions still saved their suspended status, which was a rather tedious task I wasn't looking forward to repeating.

Not ideal, but better than living without the extension.

[csis0247]

Yup, can attest. I lost over 800 tabs because of this. My last saved session was 2 weeks ago, so...

• If this happens to you, don't touch anything, don't close the browser, and backup you Last Tabs and Last Session in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default to a safe location. This step is likely useless as The Great Suspender will likely have corrupted even your Last Tabs and Last Session as soon as you opened your browser.
• If this does not work, see if you have File History (Windows) or Time Machine (Mac) enabled, and recover from there.
• When you decide that it is safe to open your browser, The Great Suspender has a Session Management menu, backup those previous sessions.
• DO NOT uninstall The Great Suspender extension just yet. First grab another Chrome to verify your saved session is working. Mine were corrupted already, and if you removed The Great Suspender, your previous saved sessions within the extension would also be deleted from C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\IndexedDB\chrome-extension_klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg_0.indexeddb.leveldb.
• Then, if everything works, uninstall The Great Suspender extension, close the browser, rename Last Tabs and Last Session to Current Tabs and Current Session, copy them back to their original directory, and reopen.

[delusionn]

Regarding my suggested fix, it worked for a day, but has recurred, so it's not a permanent solution.

[q00u]

There was a known bug in Chrome 79.0.3945.79 where windows were not being rendered. It has been fixed in 79.0.3945.88. Update, restart, see if your session comes back fully.

[Smir]

There was a known bug in Chrome 79.0.3945.79 where windows were not being rendered. It has been fixed in 79.0.3945.88. Update, restart, see if your session comes back fully.

working good, thank you

[DFNCTSC]

@Smir @delusionn @csis0247

This is not a problem with The Great Suspender.

This is a problem with how you manage web content.

600, 700, 800+ tabs is astounding mismanagement, a feat of personal inability to properly use the internet, and this is not the intended function or purpose of the extension The Great Suspender.

You need to improve your internet usage habits.

Something that might help you in this journey is OneTab
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?hl=en or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/ ).

Or maybe you need to learn how to use bookmarks?

[delusionn]

This is not a problem with The Great Suspender.

This is a problem with how you manage web content.

600, 700, 800+ tabs is astounding mismanagement, a feat of personal inability to properly use the internet, and this is not the intended function or purpose of the extension The Great Suspender.

You need to improve your internet usage habits.

Something that might help you in this journey is OneTab
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?hl=en or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/ ).

Or maybe you need to learn how to use bookmarks?

This isn't a comedy forum, your reply isn't helpful or accurate, and this isn't Twitter. You use your tools I'll use mine. While 600-800 certainly seems excessive to me for an everyday use, I've certainly been there for temporary projects. As it turned out, it wasn't a Great Suspender problem, it was a temporary Chrome problem and it _was a problem_ that the Chrome developers acknowledged and resolved. This is good, because I'd temporarily moved to a different session management software solution and it was sub-par, and did not save session hibernation status between browser restarts.