Manually force tabs into Memory Saver mode

Brave Feature Requests Desktop Requests
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Hi,

Is it possible to force a tab into Memory Saver mode? I’m asking this under Feature Requests as I can’t see a way to do it, but I think it would be good if the option existed perhaps as an option under the right-click menu of a tab, and would allow a more technical user to manage tabs they might know use a lot of memory.

For example, I am regularly using Miro boards and have a few tabs open on miro.com. I know that these can use a lot of memory but I am not always active in them. Memory Saver doesn’t seem to provide options such as a threshold in which Memory Saver should deactivate a tab, so a manual option to do this would be great for my use case.

Interested to know others opinions on this. Thanks.

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This feature came from Chromium, so unless that is improved… Memory saver only kicks in when memory is stressed and it’ll automatically target the oldest/unused tab(s).

There are extensions that could do more advanced memory management, but have their own issues

The benefit of the Memory saver in Brave/Chromium, its hands off. User doesn’t need to think about it, no interaction needed.

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you can use tab suspender for the purpose , it even has other great features

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As well as extensions, there’s an internal page which will let you do that:
brave://discards/