Keep One Pinned Tab

Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.

What is Keep One Pinned Tab?

"Keep One Pinned Tab" is a Chrome extension made for personal and productive use. It keeps a pinned tab always open, preventing the Chrome browser from closing when the last tab is closed. The pinned tab can be customized with your preferred URL. The extension also supports the no-focus feature for the special pinned tab and works in incognito mode. With continuous upgrades and bug fixes, it is enhanced with more user options and settings controls.

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By: Gavin Borg

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Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.33 (55)

Version: 5.0 (Last updated: 2024-01-08)

Creation date: 2018-09-30

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
tabGroups
storage
alarms

Size: 17.92K

Email: ga*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 19064 ▼ 164

Other rankings

#6978 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 12 #41 in keep keyword 52 ▼ 11 #53 in google keep keyword 47 ▲ 1 #187 in close keyword 15 ▲ 1 #274 in release keyword 29 ▲ 5

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Summary

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Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab. This extension prevents Chrome from closing when you close the final tab in a window. It keeps one pinned, blank tab always open as the first tab in your tab bar, and reopens it if it is closed.

Inspired by "Live On": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-on/oficfgdfeoknbjfhommlpiekdapmnebh/

Icons by Everaldo Coelho: http://www.everaldo.com/

Project released open-source, Github project available: https://github.com/theborg3of5/KeepOnePinnedTab

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as described
Solves problem of accidentally closing pinned tabs
Customization options appreciated

Cons

Some users experienced issues with multiple tabs opening
Some users reported new pinned tab being generated each time Chrome is closed and re-opened

Most mentioned

Customization options
Works as described
New pinned tab being generated
Accidentally close my incognito chrome when using public PC

Recent reviews

Would be better if I could specify multiple pinned tabs to always open. I'd love to always open 1 pinned tab for my work email, and one for my personal email. Oh well. Great otherwise. 4 stars for this reason.

Bradley Summers, 2024-02-04

Działa

Thomas Anderson, 2024-01-25

Update: DEV! Could you add support for allowing users to make as many "global pinned tabs" as we want? In other words, if I could chose to make any of the pinned tabs in a right click context menu by the each. Also, a way to configure this to automatically happen with all pinned tabs and could then use the right click context menu on individual pinned tabs in order to exclude them from being global? Basically, two modes. Auto make global (across all windows) if pinned with ability to right click to exclude vs user selected via tab right click context menu. If I can contact you directly I'll try but kudos for your work and for mostly solving an issue that clearly a lot of people have with both major browsers.

B Mitch, 2023-05-21

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Safety

Risk impact

Keep One Pinned Tab may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.