v1.0.2 (Renamed to Disable automatic tab discarding)

Author: WorldLanguages

background.js

@@ -1,34 +1,16 @@
-updateurls(); setInterval(updateurls, 10000);
+chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(function(tab) {
+  if(tab.status === "complete") chrome.tabs.reload(tab.id);
+  chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {autoDiscardable: false});
+});
 
-chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(function(tabId, changeInfo, tab){
-  if(urls.length === 0) return;
-  if(changeInfo.url) {
-    chrome.tabs.query({url: urls}, function(tabs) {
-      if(tabs === undefined) {
-        updateurls();
-        chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({text: "error"});
-        return;
-      }
-      chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText({text: ""});
-      if(tabs.length === 0 && !(tab.autoDiscardable)) {
-        chrome.tabs.update(tabId, {autoDiscardable: true});
-      }
-      if(tabs.length !== 0) {
-      for (i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++) {
-        if(tabs[i].id === tabId) {
-          if(tab.autoDiscardable)  // If tab matches URL pattern and it should be marked as non discardable
-          chrome.tabs.update(tabId, {autoDiscardable: false});
-          break;
-        }
-        if(i === tabs.length-1 && !(tab.autoDiscardable))  // If tab does not match URL pattern and should be marked as discardable
-        chrome.tabs.update(tabId, {autoDiscardable: true});
-      } // Loop
-    } // If tabs found
+chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function(details) {
+  chrome.tabs.query({}, function(tabs) {
+    tabs.forEach(function(tab) {
+      chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {autoDiscardable: false});
     });
-  }
+  });
 });
 
-function updateurls() {
-  if(localStorage.getItem("urls")) urls = localStorage.getItem("urls").split(',');
-  else urls = [];
-}
+chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(function(tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
+  if(changeInfo.discarded) chrome.tabs.reload(tabId);
+});

manifest.json

@@ -1,21 +1,19 @@
 {
-   "manifest_version":2,
-   "name":"Do Not Discard",
-   "description":"Avoid Chrome automatically discarding tabs that it thinks don't interest to you when they do.",
-   "version":"1.0",
+  "manifest_version": 2,
+  "name": "Disable automatic tab discarding",
+  "description": "Stops Chrome from suspending tabs, and reloading them when you switch to them — works like chrome://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding",
+  "version": "1.0.2",
   "background": {
     "scripts": ["background.js"]
   },
-   "browser_action":{
-      "default_popup":"popup.html",
-      "default_icon":"icon.png"
-   },
-   "icons":{
-      "16":"icon.png",
-      "48":"icon.png",
-      "128":"icon.png"
-   },
-   "permissions":[
-      "tabs"
-    ]
- }
+  "browser_action": {
+    "default_title": "Automatic tab discarding currently disabled\nDisable/uninstall this extension to enable it",
+    "default_icon":"icon.png"
+  },
+  "icons": {
+    "16":"icon.png",
+    "48":"icon.png",
+    "128":"icon.png"
+  },
+  "permissions": []
+}