Prevent Duplicate Tabs

Prevent duplicate tabs
What is Prevent Duplicate Tabs?
'Prevent Duplicate Tabs' is a Chrome extension designed for efficient browsing. It automatically prevents the creation of duplicate tabs, ensuring a clean and organized browsing interface. This extension functions based on user-specified settings, from closing the oldest tabs to ignoring queries and hashes in URLs. It features quick activation and deactivation, and exceptions for certain hosts or URLs. It functions independently in incognito mode and the tabs closure works based on various Chrome API events.

Extension stats

Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.46 (24)
Version: 0.7.10 (Last updated: 2023-04-03)
Creation date: 2020-04-30
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 42.26K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Prevent Duplicate Tabs (v0.7.10)
4.50 (18) 7,113+
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Extension summary

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Prevents automatic creation of new tabs or repeating tabs when two or more tabs have the same addresses

The process of closing repeated tabs is automatic based on the settings that you can determine within the extension/add-on, it is also possible to quickly disable and activate the add-on without having to access the extensions panel.

You can add a host or URL to specify as an exception so that the add-on doesn't close repeating tabs.

The extension/add-on has support for closing repeated tabs in incognito/incognito mode, but this works in isolation and will not share any information from incognito mode with normal mode, they are completely separate actions.

Among the settings you can choose to consider or disregard querystring and hashes in URLs as a factor to differentiate them.

It is also possible to configure if you prefer to close the oldest tabs and if you want to prevent the active tab (currently visible) from being closed.

Closing tabs works based on Chrome API events and you can disable or re-enable such events within the extension/add-on:

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helps prevent duplicate tabs from different windows
  • Offers various customization options
  • Widely appreciated for its effectiveness in avoiding duplicate tabs
Cons
  • Issues with the "Preserve Active" function, leading to lost work
  • Sometimes fails to prevent duplicates from new blank tabs
  • High CPU usage reported by some users
Most mentioned
  • Problems with preserving the active tab
  • Duplicates not detected in specific scenarios (e.g., chrome://newtab)
  • Overall satisfaction but with suggestions for improvement
Recent reviews
Mostly great, but "Preserve Active" does not work and I've lost some work duplicating active tab and it overtaking my current one. "Duplicate Tabs Closer" seems to work in this regard, otherwise I liked your extension.
by Kerry Johnson, 2024-10-03

by Vladimir Bebeshko, 2024-08-29

The extension keeps causing me to lose work and time. Enabling "Preserve Active" and disablign "Close olders" doesn't work. My older tabs are getting closed.
by John Weiss, 2024-08-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Prevent Duplicate Tabs requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Prevent Duplicate Tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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