Duplicate Tabs Closer

Duplicate Tabs Closer detects and closes duplicate tabs.

• Use the WebExtensions API
• Support Firefox and Chrome
• Firefox Container Tab feature is supported.

Options:

On duplicate tab detected:

• 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.

On remaining tab:

(Used with option Close tab automatically)

• 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.

Whiltelist":

(Used with option Close tab automatically)
List of urls to not close automatically. Duplicate tabs skipped will be notified in badge.
Wildcards and RegExp are supported.

Priority:

(Used with option Close tab automatically and Close all duplicate tabs button)

• Keep older tab (default): Keep the already existing tab.
• 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.

matchingRules:

• 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 tab title (default off)

Scope:

• Container in active window<: only closes/displays duplicate tabs that belong to a same container in the active window.
• Container in all windows: only closes/displays duplicate tabs that belong to a same container in all windows.
• Active window (default): only closes/displays duplicate tabs that belong to a same window.
• All window: closes/displays duplicate tabs for all windows.

Customization:

(only accessible from the page Options - opened from extension popup panel by clicking on top right icon or by opening the Extensions panel and select extension's options )

• Duplicate tabs badge color: Set the badge color for duplicate tabs
• No duplicate tab badge color: Set the badge color for no duplicate tabs
• Show badge if no duplicate tab: Show badge with value 0 if no duplicate tab

Hotkey:

• Alt+Shift+W to close all duplicate tabs (this could be configured in the options in future version)