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The Marvellous Suspender 8.1.4 — Tab group restore fix for Chrome 149

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Giovanni Solone
Giovanni Solone
Co-founder of Marvellous Codeworks. Rescued The Great Suspender, built The Marvellous Suspender
Rob Kodey
Rob Kodey
Co-founder of Marvellous Codeworks. Rescued The Great Discarder, built The Great-er Tab Discarder

A targeted fix release addressing the tab group restore regression introduced by Chrome 149, where suspended tabs inside tab groups were silently discarded after a browser restart.

What's fixed​

Suspended tabs inside tab groups restored correctly after restart​

Starting with Chrome 149, a change in the browser's session restore engine caused tabs with non-https:// URLs — including TMS suspended tabs — to be skipped when restoring tab groups. This resulted in blank New Tab pages appearing in place of your suspended tabs after every restart.

TMS 8.1.4 works around the Chrome-side behavior and restores suspended tabs inside tab groups correctly again. Tabs outside tab groups were not affected and continue to work as before.

note

If you used the back-grouped-tabs companion extension as a temporary workaround, you can safely remove it now that TMS includes a built-in fix.

Full changelog on GitHub: v8.1.4 release

Related: TMS & Chrome 149: suspended tabs inside tab groups lost after restart