Clutter Free - Prevent duplicate tabs

Reduce tab clutter - prevent duplicate tabs, quickly search & switch tabs, and more...

Clutter Free Chrome Extension

Clutter Free is designed to enhance your browsing experience by automatically preventing and managing duplicate tabs. It's perfect for users who want to maintain a clean workspace while browsing the web. With its core functionality, Clutter Free runs seamlessly in the background, detecting when you try to open a link that already exists in another tab. Rather than creating a new tab, the extension smartly switches to the existing one.

In addition to managing duplicates, Clutter Free comes with several powerful features such as Quick Tab Search, which allows users to search and switch between tabs using simple keyboard shortcuts. You can list all duplicate tabs, selectively close them, and even customize your tab management experience through allow-lists and block-lists. Enjoy a clutter-free browsing experience, save time, and improve your productivity with Clutter Free.

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Manifest V3
Users: 30,000+
Rating: 3.72
(207)
Version: 9.3.0 (Last updated: 2024-08-12)
Version code: 2024.0811.9.3
Creation date: 2020-07-04
Risk: High risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
  • alarms
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • tabs
  • webRequest
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 420.86K
Full description: See detailed description
Updated: 13 hours ago

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# 4,661 ▲ 3
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User reviews

Pros
  • Helps manage duplicate tabs effectively
  • Useful for users with many tabs open
  • Has potential for being a great tool when functioning properly
Cons
  • Causes significant lag and freezing in Chrome
  • High RAM and CPU usage reported
  • Stopped working effectively with recent updates
  • Notifications for other extensions are intrusive
Most mentioned
  • Performance issues with multiple tabs
  • Freezing and lagging the browser
  • Unstable functionality in recent versions
  • Problems with compatibility with Google Docs
  • Occasional usefulness but largely ineffective now
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. User reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
User reviews
*****USER BEWARE***** Unusable unless you don't need to use it. Your RAM usage will increase until full, drop down, then repeat, over & over with this extension enabled. In a system with over 200 Chrome Tabs Chrome was completely unusable, had to go into the Chrome `C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions folder & delete the recently created folder to get into Chrome. On another system with only 30 Tabs I was able to scroll task manager but there'd be multiple minute pauses between when you scroll & when you see it scroll on the screen. It completely filled the 8GB of RAM on this system, then would drop back to only 1.5GB used, then fill up, over & over with no other programs running & only 30 tabs open.
by Leon Noël, 2025-02-03
As others have said, the extension isn't working as well as it used to. While I don't have the issue with it slowing down that others report, it appears to have stopped working with Google Docs. Since I work at an organization that relies on Google Docs this is less than optimal as I end up having the same document/spreadsheet/presentation open in multiple tabs and keep opening versions and new tabs.
by Matt Bernius, 2025-01-16
思っていたのとは違ったので移行します。
by 悠羽司恩, 2025-01-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact
High risk impact

Clutter Free - Prevent duplicate tabs requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. 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.
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Risk likelihood
Very low risk likelihood

Clutter Free - Prevent duplicate tabs has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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