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The Great Suspender

Developer Tools — Auto-suspend inactive tabs to reduce memory usage of chrome — The Great Suspender is a lightweig…
Developer Toolsfreeest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 16 probesavg response 3271 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
chromewebstore.google.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Great Suspender's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Block280entertainmenttag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Hindsightproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Take a Break Pageproductivitytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Comaproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
brktfldg · Bracket Foldingproductivitytag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Focusbookproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
A Google A Dayentertainmenttag-overlap100%1.80.0■ inactive
Facebook friends feedentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfree
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-19 15:00Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2161alive
2026-08-11 14:12Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF3795alive
2026-08-08 23:52Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2308alive
2026-08-05 19:45Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF4419alive
2026-07-30 19:01Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2355alive
2026-07-26 15:42Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF1984alive
2026-07-18 12:27Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2621alive
2026-07-12 09:43Z10022timeout
2026-07-04 13:45Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF3040alive
2026-06-23 14:56Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2808alive
2026-06-21 18:00Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF971alive
2026-06-21 18:00Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2419alive
2026-06-20 07:25Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2814alive
2026-06-19 05:51Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF4075alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Great Suspender · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-great-suspender · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.