Smarter Tab

Smarter Tab will close your inactive tabs automatically for you, free your computer's memory, enable sorting tabs, and much more!

Smarter Tab: Free up memory and organize your Chrome tabs

Smarter Tab is a Chrome extension that automatically closes inactive tabs, freeing up computer memory and reducing battery usage. It also provides a history page to easily access closed tabs, allows tab sorting, and offers customizable settings for tab closure. Improve your browsing experience with Smarter Tab!
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Extension stats

Users: 105
-13
Rating: 5.00
(2)
Version: 0.4.3 (Last updated: 2019-03-29)
Creation date: 2019-03-29
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • background
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 432.13K

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Extension summary

One day your laptop is frozen because your Chrome browser is using too much memory. You realize that you have TOO MANY UNUSED / INACTIVE open tabs which you don’t even remember why you did not close them.

Smarter Tab is the solution! Smarter Tab’s main features:

  1. Close inactive tab automatically to release your computer’s memory, reduce battery usage, reduce distraction from not-so-important tabs.
  2. History page will show all the tabs which have been closed automatically (allow searching and sorting), so you don't have to worry about losing them.
  3. Introducing the 1st feature of Tab Tools (v 0.4.0) : Sort all tabs - allow all same website tabs to be next to each other
  4. You can set : Number of tabs at which you want Smarter Tab to start closing the inactive ones. Smart Tab will not close any inactive tabs until you have at least this amount of tabs opening. Number of minutes for an inactive tab to be closed

Please feel free to report any bugs, write a review or suggestions. Thank you for using this extension :)

User reviews

Really useful when you are opening too many tabs and not using them. Its history is a big plus when I track the closed tabs. Good Job!
by David Tram, 2017-06-12
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Smarter Tab requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Smarter Tab has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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