Browser Breather – Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23/11/25

Browser Breather is a Chrome/Edge extension that helps you keep your browser fast by automatically hibernating inactive tabs using the browser’s built-in features.

We care about keeping things simple, quiet, and local. This policy explains what the extension does and what data it handles.

1. What Browser Breather does

• Uses the browser’s built-in “discard” / “hibernate” mechanism to put inactive tabs to sleep.
• Lets you choose a time delay (for example, 5–30 minutes) before inactive tabs are hibernated.
• Lets you exclude certain sites and protect tabs that are active, pinned, playing audio, or internal browser pages.
• Shows a simple popup and settings page to control these options.

1. Data we store

Browser Breather stores a small amount of data locally in your browser only using the browser’s storage API:

• Your settings (such as whether auto-hibernate is on, the timer value, and your whitelist of “never sleep” sites).
• Anonymous tab activity timestamps (tab IDs mapped to “last active” times) so the extension knows when a tab has been inactive long enough to hibernate.
• A couple of simple numbers about the last hibernation sweep (for example, when it ran and how many tabs were hibernated).

We do not store the content of your pages.

1. Data we do not collect

Browser Breather v1:

• Does not request host permissions.
• Does not inject scripts into web pages.
• Does not log, track, or send your browsing history anywhere.