Fast Duplicate Tab Closer
Extension prevents duplicate of websites by focusing on already opened tabs.
What is Fast Duplicate Tab Closer?
"Fast Duplicate Tab Closer" is a Chrome extension designed to optimize your browsing experience by actively preventing tabs with identical websites from opening. The extension auto-closes duplicate tabs, instantly shifts focus to their previously opened counterparts, thus saving loading time, managing tab navigation efficiently, and preserving your device memory.
Extension stats
Users: 1,000+ 
Rating: 4.36
(33)
Creation date: 2019-11-17
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- tabs
- webRequest
- webRequestBlocking
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
- storage
Size: 10.78K
Email: ze*****@gmail.com
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Extension summary
When you open a tab with a website that has been already opened, the extension closes the new tab and focus on the old tab.
As a result:
- you don't waste time waiting for loading already opened website
- you do not have similar opened tabs - it makes easier to navigate over tabs and laptop does not spend memory on keeping duplicated tabs!
Ask for new features in the review section!
Updates:
-v0.0.8
- Decrease loading time for just opened duplicated pages (only available for Chrome Beta for now)
User reviews
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Works as expected and does exactly what users need.
- Helps manage duplicate tabs effectively.
- Automatically activates the surviving tab when a duplicate is closed.
- User-friendly with intuitive functionality.
- Good performance with quick response.
Cons
- Does not work across different windows.
- Fails to detect duplicates in tab groups.
- Has bugs that impact usability, such as jumping to the surviving tab.
- Occasionally closes tabs that users want to keep.
- Lacks some additional configuration options.
Most mentioned
- Works great and helpful.
- Closes duplicate tabs effectively.
- Does not recognize duplicates in tab groups.
- Automatically activates the previous tab after closing a duplicate.
- Requires better handling of duplicated tabs created via right-click.
Recent reviews
Really helpful. Exactly what I need
by 
Wenyi Wu, 2024-03-07
Wenyi Wu, 2024-03-07 by 
Fei Shao, 2024-02-02
Fei Shao, 2024-02-02It works ! and does exactly everything I needed it to do. No more 5000x chatgpt windows :P
by 
Sal B, 2023-08-13
Sal B, 2023-08-13Extension safety
Risk impact
Fast Duplicate Tab Closer requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Fast Duplicate Tab Closer has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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