Just leave this tab open and your browser won't be closed automatically. Google Chrome's automatic tab discarding feature will suspend random background tabs to reduce memory usage when the system memory is low. How to automatically close inactive tabs in Chrome. Tab Wrangler closes tabs that haven't been used recently. Can I disable this weird and unwanted feature? Open Chrome, close all tabs and open a new tab. If you want to get rid of the donation hints, you can use this page instead. In order to call this method, the extension must have either the permission or the activeTab permission.