// UNIHODL vs GREAT SUSPENDER
The Great Suspender is gone. UNIHODL is the safe replacement.
The Great Suspender froze inactive tabs to free memory — until a 2021 ownership change introduced code Google flagged as malicious, and it was removed from the Chrome Web Store. UNIHODL takes a different, safer route: close tabs entirely and restore your exact state — scroll, video, the paragraph — in one click. MV3-clean, local-first, no remotely-hosted code.
Install UNIHODL Free →Where The Great Suspender is genuinely good.
We’re not going to pretend otherwise.
- For years it did one thing well: auto-suspending idle tabs to reclaim memory.
- Simple, free, and beloved by tab-hoarders before the ownership change.
- Lightweight — it stayed out of your way.
Where UNIHODL wins.
Close tabs — don't just freeze them
Suspending still leaves hundreds of tabs hoarded in your bar. UNIHODL lets you actually close them with 'Close tabs & HODL' and bring the whole session back later, intact.
Restores your state, not a blank reload
A suspended tab reloaded to the top of the page. UNIHODL restores pixel-precise scroll, second-accurate video timestamps, and the text you were reading.
Built the opposite way to what got it removed
UNIHODL is Manifest V3, local-first, and ships zero remotely-hosted code — the exact policy area that got The Great Suspender pulled. Your saves stay on your machine; sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted.
On-device AI + instant search
Sessions are auto-tagged on-device with Chrome's Gemini Nano, and everything you've held is instantly full-text searchable. A suspender just held a URL.
Feature matrix
| Feature | UNIHODL | The Great Suspender |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce memory from open tabs | Yes — close & restore | Yes — suspend |
| Actually close tabs (not just freeze) | Yes | — |
| Restore scroll position | Pixel-precise | — |
| Restore video timestamp | Second-accurate | — |
| Reading anchor / selected text | Yes | — |
| On-device AI tags | Yes (Gemini Nano) | — |
| Instant full-text search | Yes | — |
| In the Chrome Web Store today | Yes — live | Removed (2021) |
| Manifest V3 · no remote code | Yes — local-first | — |
| Cross-device sync (E2E) | Yes (Pro) | — |
| Free tier | Unlimited saves | Was free |
| Lifetime deal | $149 (first 500) | — |
Pick UNIHODL if
- → You want a safe, maintained replacement now that The Great Suspender is gone.
- → You'd rather close tabs and restore them perfectly than keep hundreds frozen.
- → You want your scroll and video position back — not just the URL.
- → You care that an extension is MV3-clean and local-first, with no remotely-hosted code.
Stick with The Great Suspender if
- → Honestly? Don't reinstall the original — it was removed in 2021 for malicious code.
- → If all you need is to free RAM, a maintained MV3 fork (e.g., The Marvellous Suspender) just suspends tabs — but it won't save your scroll, video, or reasoning.
No credit card. Works alongside The Great Suspender — you can run both. See what UNIHODL actually does →