Duplicate Tabs Closer chrome extension

What is Duplicate Tabs Closer?

Duplicate Tabs Closer is a tab manager extension for chrome. it's a free extension , it has 10,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.42 from 67 rated user, last update is 1412 days ago.

What’s new in version 3.5.3?

                Duplicate Tabs Closer detects and closes duplicate tabs.

Version 3.5.3 changelog:
* Fix: Popup UI issue

Version 3.5.2 changelog:
* Code optimizations
* Update UI
* Bug Fixes
* Add: Collapsible 'Options' menu
* New: Shrunk mode to hide unpinned option
* New: Custom option to close popup panel after closing duplicate tabs

Version 3.5.0 changelog:
* Code optimizations
* New filter option: Ignore case in URL
* New filter option: Ignore 'www' in URL domain name
* New scope option: Container in active window
* New scope option: Container in all windows
* Update UI

★ "On duplicate tab detected" options:
- Close tab automatically: automatically closes the detected duplicate tab.
- Do nothing: monitor tabs and update the badge icon to indicate the number of duplicate tabs detected.

★ On remaining tab options (used with "Close tab automatically):
- Do nothing (default): nothing is done after the duplicate tab is closed.
- Activate: once the duplicate tab is closed, the remaining tab is activated.
- Apply opening tab behavior: once the duplicate tab is closed, depending on the default tab behavior, the remaining tab will be moved to the position of the closed tab and activated if needed.

★ Whitelist (used with "Close tab automatically):
 List of urls to not close automatically.
 Duplicate tabs detected will be notified in badge.
 Wildcards is supported.

★ "Priority" options (used with "Close tab automatically" mode and "Close all duplicate tabs" button):
- Keep older tab (default): Keep the already existing tab.
- Keep newer tab: Keep the newer tab.
- Keep tab with https (default on): Ignore the scheme part during comparison and keep the tab with the https scheme.
- Keep pinned tab (default on): Keep the pinned tab.

★ Filters options:
- Ignore hash part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/#detail-relnotes and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
- Ignore search part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/?src=ss and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
- Ignore path part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
- Compare with tab title (default off): If the URL doesn't match then compare using the tab title.

★ Scope options:
- Active window (default): only closes/displays duplicate tabs that belong to a same window.
- All window: closes/displays duplicate tabs for all windows.

★ Hotkey:
- Alt+Shift+W to close all duplicate tabs (this could be configured in the options in future version)


For bug reports and feature requests:
https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer/issues            

How to install Duplicate Tabs Closer?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Duplicate Tabs Closer

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Reviews of duplicate tabs closer:

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Gabriela March 21st, 2023

Thanks for making this! It's been my go-to extension for finding duplicate tabs. I've noticed however it's not handing well one of the following (still trying to figure out which): a bigger amount of tabs, tabs that go into sleep mode, or tab grouping.

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Peter Froud February 23rd, 2023

Thanks for making this extension :)

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Allan Laal February 19th, 2023

the best duplicate tabs closer in both chrome and firefox!

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