Reviews of Lock Tab

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3.53 (Rating count: 72)

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Users appreciate Lock Tab for preventing accidental tab closures and its simple locking mechanism, especially for critical sessions and work tabs. The auto-lock feature and confirmation popups enhance usability. However, common issues include inconsistent locking activation, interference with pinned tabs, and intrusive confirmation dialogs on dynamic sites. Some users also report that pre-existing tabs need refreshing to be lockable and occasional bugs with locking new or refreshed tabs. Despite drawbacks, many find it valuable enough to replace other solutions and wish for improvements in handling site navigation and exceptions.

Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2025-07-07	Ma*****	en	Super handy — I recommend it for clumsy folks like me who always hit Command + W by mistake
2025-07-01	Al*****	en	Absolute FAIL. Description says this extension "Prevents a tab from being closed accidentally," which it sort of does -- but it also keeps me from navigating within a site without giving permission, and giving permission quietly unlocks the tab, allowing me to accidentally close the tab. Fail fail fail. From reading the developer's responses to other reviews, Chrome does not allow a useful approach. Okay fine. Put this information in the description so we know the extension doesn't usefully do what it says, and can't be fixed because Chrome. I resent having my time wasted because of an incomplete and misleading description. Plonk.
2025-06-27	Ri*****	en	Make the "leave site / cancel" popup default to cancel. It's too easy to accidentally hit return and then it defeats the whole point of having the pinned tab not close (or change).
2025-06-24	Ro*****	en	Good extension. A feature I'd like, which I believe a previous "lock tab" extension (which no longer exists) had, would be the option to prevent changing the URL of the tab, by either: - Showing the same "Leave site?" pop-up whenever you navigate to a new URL; or - Opening all different URLs in a new tab instead of in the existing one For me, it's also important that this feature would hook into the JavaScript API for changing the URL, not only full-page reloads, because nowadays a lot of websites are SPAs which manage page transitions fully within the JavaScript framework.
2025-06-18	St*****	en	I'm so glad I'm not a profgrammer. It installed and works fine. This should keep me from screwing up and accidentally closing anything in my email/operations tab group.
2025-06-16	N *****	ru	Не работает 16.06.2025
2025-06-09	刘云*****	en	Noticed the extension only locks tabs opened after installation. Pre-existing tabs don’t lock until refreshed. A simple fix, but worth noting!
2025-04-19	Ri*****	en	As long as you interact with the locked page before trying to close it works great. I have several staff using the same computer and they all run important systems off it simultaneously, and closing a tab prematurely can cause issues. Also really appreciate that I can auto lock certain tabs so neither me nor my staff have to think about it on a day-to-day basis.
2025-04-15	Ve*****	en	Tab never locks no matter how many times I click on the lock icon. If I right-click and select Lock Tab a new tab to the instruction page opens. And yes, I interacted with the page. Completely useless.
2025-04-14	Gr*****	en	Sometimes I have to click two or three times on the lock icon before the icon shows the tab as locked. Then a click somewhere in the page that is not a link, for the lock to become effective. Then if I attempt to follow a link, I can't do so without confirming (the Leave button), after which the tab is no longer locked.

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