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.

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By: Guilherme Nascimento

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Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.58 (19)

Version: 0.7.10 (Last updated: 2023-04-03)

Creation date: 2020-04-30

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Size: 42.26K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 13934 ▼ 102

Other rankings

#3279 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2

#2 in prevent keyword 25

#106 in new tabs keyword 50 ▲ 11

#107 in event keyword 23 ▼ 1

#111 in browser tab keyword 53 ▼ 2

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Prevent Duplicate Tabs (v0.7.10)

4.50 (17) 6,156+

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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

User reviews summary

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Pros

Works excellently
Good customization options
Prevents duplicate tabs from different windows

Cons

Toolbar icons could be more intuitive
Doesn't prevent duplicate tabs in different windows by default
High CPU usage for some users

Most mentioned

Works excellently
Prevents duplicate tabs from different windows
Good customization options

Recent reviews

Would be perfect if it automatically closed chrome://newtab pages also. For some reason it doesn't detect this as a duplicate

Sam, 2023-09-17

Ivan Thung, 2024-01-18

awesome extension please consider to add another features; 1. can prevent duplicated new blank tab 2. allow optional duplicate tab by right clicking on active tab >> Duplicate

Faris, 2023-11-17

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Safety

Risk impact

Prevent Duplicate Tabs may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.