isabella232 / duplicate-tabs-closer

Duplicate Tabs Closer - Detects and closes duplicate tabs for Chrome and Firefox.

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.

Filters:

• Ignore hash part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/#detail-relnotes and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
• Ignore search part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/?src=ss and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
• Ignore path part in URL (default off): for instance https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer will be considered as the same URL.
• Compare with tab title (default off): If the URL doesn't match then compare using the tab title.

Scope:

• Container: only closes/displays duplicate tabs that belong to a same container.
• 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)