Smart Prevent Duplicate Tabs

Name: Smart Prevent Duplicate Tabs
Rating: 4 (19 reviews)
Author: Guilherme Nascimento

Prevents AUTOMATIC creation of new tabs or repeating tabs when two or more tabs have the same addresses. The process of closing repeated tabs is automatic based on the settings that you can determine within the extension/add-on.

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Smart Prevent Duplicate Tabs is a powerful Chrome extension designed to streamline your browsing by automatically preventing the creation of duplicate tabs with the same URLs. It intelligently closes repeated tabs based on customizable settings, such as whether to consider query strings or hashes, which tabs to close first (oldest or newest), and whether to protect your currently active tab.

The extension supports incognito mode with isolated tab management and features an easy toggle to activate or disable the add-on without accessing the extensions panel. Users can specify URL exceptions to preserve important tabs. It operates seamlessly by listening to various Chrome API events like tab creation, updates, replacements, and attachments, ensuring your browser remains organized and efficient.

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Version:

0.7.10 Last updated: 2023-04-05

Version code:

5548133

Creation date:

2018-01-08

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Permissions:

tabs
storage

Size:

46.59KB

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Firefox Browser Add-ons

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a day ago

Ranking

# 5,900 ▲ 30

Other rankings

#3 in prevent keyword 28

#11 in event keyword 21 ▲ 1

#26 in smart keyword 24

#31 in present keyword 29

#37 in smartbook keyword 45

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User reviews

Works great as of 6/5/2025.

by ro*****, 2025-06-06

by 远离*****, 2025-03-31

by 敬念*****, 2025-02-28

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Smart Prevent Duplicate Tabs requires a few sensitive permissions. 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.

Risk likelihood

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Smart Prevent Duplicate Tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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