Prevent Duplicate Tabs

Name: Prevent Duplicate Tabs
Rating: 4.3 (19 reviews)
Author: Brcontainer

Prevent duplicate tabs

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Prevent Duplicate Tabs is a powerful Chrome extension designed to automatically detect and close duplicate tabs, keeping your browser organized and efficient. It intelligently manages tabs based on URL matching, with customizable options to consider query strings and hashes. You can specify exceptions by adding hosts or URLs, ensuring certain sites are never auto-closed.

This extension also supports incognito mode without sharing data between normal and incognito sessions, maintaining privacy. Users can choose whether to close older tabs first and protect the currently active tab from accidental closure. With control over multiple tab events such as creation, updating, removal, and browser launch, Prevent Duplicate Tabs offers granular customization and quick enable/disable functionality without navigating the extensions panel, significantly enhancing tab management for all Chrome users.

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0.7.10 Last updated: 2023-04-03

Creation date:

2021-04-27

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Permissions:

tabs
storage

Size:

40.16K

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Website ,Privacy policy

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Edge Add-on Store

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17 hours ago

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# 1,928 ▼ 17

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#634 in Productivity ▲ 2

#1 in prevent keyword 29

#29 in event keyword 22 ▲ 1

#68 in close keyword 18 ▼ 1

#120 in details keyword 80 ▼ 2

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Prevent Duplicate Tabs (v0.7.10)

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User reviews

Users appreciate Prevent Duplicate Tabs for reducing duplicate tabs and saving resources with a nice interface. However, multiple reviews mention issues like premature closure of non-duplicate tabs, requiring the new tab to fully load before closing duplicates, loss of input data due to default tab closing behavior, and not automatically switching focus to existing tabs. Suggestions include adding better tab switching and management features to enhance usability.

Pros

Effectively prevents duplicate tabs which helps save computer resources.
Has a simple and nice user interface.
Useful for managing multiple tabs and reducing clutter.
Optionally closes duplicate tabs to keep browsing organized.
Well received by users who value its core functionality.

Cons

Occasionally erroneously prevents non-duplicate tabs from opening.
Requires the new tab to fully load before closing duplicates, reducing resource savings.
Default behavior closes existing tabs, causing potential loss of input data.
Does not automatically switch focus to the existing duplicate tab, requiring manual search.
Lacks option to reload or not reload existing tabs when switching focus.

Recent reviews

While I like the concept there were basically two major drawbacks that forced me to uninstall the extension. First and foremost was that it would occasionally erroneously prevent tabs that were clearly not duplicates from opening requiring me to disable it in order to access sites. Second as somebody else mentioned the tab must fully load before it then closes, so the saving of resources is actually quite minimal if any.

by Gary, 2024-12-03

O melhor atualmente da loja!

by Rafael, 2024-05-31

The default option is that it closes existing tabs which means you loose input data you have made in a existing tab to get a new tab. Does not make sense. If you disable that, it prevents opening another tab, but it does not jump to the existing tab. So with many tabs, you only know it is already opened but not where and have to jump manually again.

by Marco, 2024-01-29

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.

Risk likelihood

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

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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