'Close This Tab' is a Chrome extension that offers a quick, intuitive solution to close tabs. By introducing an in-tab element that appears when the mouse hovers over selected edges, users can close tabs without navigating to each tab's close button. This element is customizable, offering users control over on-hover color, thickness, click-event types and positioning. In addition to these features, 'Close This Tab' also offers a toolbar icon and context menu option for closing tabs. Due to Chrome limitations, certain pages are restricted from adding in-page elements. Nevertheless, the toolbar icon and context menu options are operational across all pages.
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Allows you to easily close tabs with the in-page border element.
Features:
• You can close the active tab by clicking to the selected in-page border element.
• In-page element only appears when you move the mouse cursor to the selected edge.
• You can change the features of the in-page element, like hover color, thickness, click event type and position.
• Use toolbar icon or context menu to close tabs.
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Pros
Highly customizable
Convenient for closing tabs
Increases browsing speed
Cons
Can mess up vertical scrolling
Inability to prevent closing pinned tabs
Reported bugs in the latest update
Most mentioned
Customization of extension
Difficulty with multi-monitor setup
Useful for mouse-only browsing
Recent reviews
Just started using this extension today but I'm already totally sold on it & thankful I gave it a try after I came across it randomly. A bit of background context: I had installed a couple different extensions over the past few weeks that added different functionalities to Chrome that should, in theory, make closing out of whichever one of the many tabs I have open at any given point easier/faster/more streamlined. I tried extensions for right click to close, context menu to close, double click to close, etc. but had yet to settle on one that actually felt truly helpful to me. Not only is this one, in fact, truly helpful, but it's customizable as well so you're able to choose your own color for the side bar, set it's thickness & transparency, decide between written text or a simple icon appearing when you hover over the bar, etc. I can already tell it will save me time & make my life easier so what more could I ask for!?
Brilliant idea. Highly customizable extension with an inventive & efficient approach for closing tabs. Works pretty well (but can take a bit of time before it renders in) and I like being able to configure it exactly how I want it to behave and look.
However, it messes up the vertical scrolling of web pages when you have the bottom bar type selected (the only one that is suitable for a multi-monitor setup). It needs a toggle to hide its vertical scroll bar, just as there is already a toggle for hiding the impact on the horizontal scroll bar. Until that is in place, I can't really use this extension effectively due to my multiple monitors.
Future improvements that should get made: No limit for the max bar width, let you select multiple zones to place the bar, allow for clicking on content behind the bar when 'double click to trigger' is selected, and let us pick the icon used in the context menu entry just as can be done for the extension icon.
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Risk likelihood
Close This Tab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.