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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