

If you don't want them to be closed automatically, you can Whitelist the URLs. Maybe you opened several tabs of a page on purpose. You may customize the badge color from the add-on's options, hide the badge if no duplicate tabs are found. Duplicate Tabs Closer works with Firefox Containers. Use the Scope drop-down menu to edit the setting. The default setting only checks for duplicate tabs in the current window. The options tell the add-on to ignore CASE in the URL, or the The extension can detect duplicate tabs across all windows, though it isn't set to do that. The add-on has several matching rules, though none of these are enabled. The other option keeps pinned tabs, in case there were 3 tabs of the same page and one of these were pinned, the add-on will prioritize the pinned tab, and close the other two. The first option keeps the tab with https in the URL, so in case a duplicate tab was found and it was a non-HTTPS page, it will be closed. There are two more options here, both of which are pre-enabled. Depending on your requirements, you may click on the "Priority" tab and switch to the "Keep Newer Tab" or "Keep and Refresh Older Tab". Speaking of which, you can always use the undo close tab shortcut in Chrome/Firefox (Ctrl + shift + T) to get your tabs back in case you closed something by mistake.ĭon't want to do this manually? Use the drop-down menu that says "On Duplicate Tab Detected", and select "Close tab automatically", and the extension will do the job for you on its own.ĭuplicate Tabs Closer preserves "older tabs" by default. The hotkey Alt + Shift + W will close all duplicate tabs in one go. What if you wanted to close just 1 of the duplicate tabs? That's possible too, every tab that's listed by the extension has an X button, click on it to close the specific tab. When you use the Close All button, the duplicate tabs are closed. The extension will detect the number of dupes, i.e., 2 out of the 3 tabs and list them. Let's say you have three tabs with the same URL. Hit the Close All button, and all duplicate tabs are closed instantly. Scroll down the list to check the tabs, and make sure nothing important was caught by the extension. There is a small pane at the bottom of the GUI that lists the duplicate tabs that were detected. The number does not represent the number of dupe tabs per site, instead it is a sum of all duplicate tabs that were discovered in that window.Ĭlick on the button and it opens a pop-up window. It has a badge on it to indicate the number of duplicate tabs that have been found.
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Install the add-on and its icon appears on the toolbar. I do this often, mostly because I click on a speed-dial to open a website, and forget to close it before opening more tabs.įinding these duplicate tabs can be difficult if not all open tabs are visible anymore, and that's what the Duplicate Tabs Closer extension for Chrome and Firefox helps simplify.
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Sometimes, we may open several tabs of the same webpage and not even realize it. This can even happen with every browser session.
