Duplicate Tabs Closer
Detects and automatically closes duplicate tabs.
Duplicate Tabs Closer: Your Solution for Duplicate Tabs
"Duplicate Tabs Closer" is a Firefox add-on designed to streamline your web browsing experience. It automatically detects and closes duplicate tabs. It offers flexible functionalities including option to automatically close duplicate tabs, whitelist certain URLs to avoid automatic closure, apply custom filters and scopes, and even customize the badge color. It also provides hotkeys for quick access. Enhance your browsing productivity with Duplicate Tabs Closer.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 164
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- cookies
- tabs
- webNavigation
- storage
- contextualIdentities
Size: 1.09M
URLs: Website
Ranking
# 907 ▲ 1
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Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary
Duplicate Tabs Closer detects and closes duplicate tabs.
"On duplicate tab detected" options:
- Close tab automatically: automatically closes the detected duplicate tab.
- Do nothing: monitor tabs and update the badge icon to indicate the number of duplicate tabs detected.
- Do nothing (default): nothing is done after the duplicate tab is closed.
- Activate: once the duplicate tab is closed, the remaining tab is activated.
- Apply opening tab behavior: once the duplicate tab is closed, depending on the default tab behavior, the remaining tab will be moved to the position of the closed tab and activated if needed.
- List of urls to not close automatically.
Duplicate tabs detected will be notified in badge.
Wildcards is supported.
- Keep older tab (default): Keep the already existing tab.
- Keep older tab and reload: Keep the already existing tab and reload it.
- Keep newer tab: Keep the newer tab.
- Keep tab with https (default on): Ignore the scheme part during comparison and keep the tab with the https scheme.
- Keep pinned tab (default on): Keep the pinned tab.
- Ignore case in URL (default off)
- Ignore 'www' in URL domain name (default off)
- Ignore hash part in URL (default off)
- Ignore search part in URL (default off)
- Ignore path part in URL (default off)
- Compare with title (default off)
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Simple and effective for managing duplicate tabs.
- Automatically closes older duplicate tabs when a new duplicate is opened.
- Offers robust features like URL format filters and a whitelist.
- Helps improve productivity for users with many tabs open.
Cons
- Only works in one window and does not detect duplicates across multiple windows.
- Manual deduplication process is confusing and does not always update in real time.
- Close all button does not function as expected, often leading to frustration.
- Fails to ignore certain types of duplicate tabs, such as 'New tab'.
- Whitelist functionality does not work as desired for certain local tabs.
Most mentioned
- Issues with manual deduplication and the 'close all' functionality.
- Problems with the functionality of whitelisting specific tabs.
- Concerns about the add-on only working within a single browser window.
User reviews
by Tempdirz, 2024-12-05
Absolutely beautiful. Exactly what I wanted. Automatically closing older duplicate tabs when a new duplicate is opened should be a stock option in firefox.
by Kachajal, 2024-10-21
Simple, yet effective.
by Ole, 2024-10-17
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Duplicate Tabs Closer requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Duplicate Tabs Closer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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