# Psychological Tab Manager

> Helps to not keep too many old tabs open by exploiting the human reward system

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/psychological-tab-manager](https://chrome-stats.com/d/psychological-tab-manager)

## Overview

- **ID:** `psychological-tab-manager`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Eiernase
- **Category:** tabs,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-12
- **First published:** 2023-10-16
- **Size:** 867 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/psychological-tab-manager/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Eiernase/ThisTabIsOnFire/](https://github.com/Eiernase/ThisTabIsOnFire/)

## Description

Psychological Tab Manager helps you Pavlov yourself into closing old tabs more often by playing amazing sounds and voicelines upon closing a tab that has been open and unused for a long time. 

It comes with an easy-to-use control panel featuring a funky, eye-catching design and options for customization, like changing the played sound and the timeout until it's triggered. 

The measurement for how long a tab has been open is saved between sessions! Because tabs mainly pile up when restoring last open tabs on the next launch. 

You can select from a pre-defined list of sounds to play or even upload your own!

Also available for chromium-based browsers! Just click on "Homepage" in the extension menu to get to the GitHub repository.

You might notice that it is not possible to select a custom sound, since the popup window closes when opening the file picker. 
You can get around this by following these steps: 

1. Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
2. Find 'Psychological Tab Manager' and click on "Inspect"
3. Click on the three dots '...' in the top right corner
4. Enable "Disable Popup Auto-Hide"

This property resets when you close the developer console.

## Rankings

- #51,290 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `notifications`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/psychological-tab-manager)