Reviews for Duplicate Tabs Closer
Duplicate Tabs Closer by Peuj
126 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by kenanunkesti, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by David Nuttall, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by quartz, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14782726, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Umair Ahmed, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13489341, 6 years agoIt doesn't work well recently. It needs to be fixed.
- Rated 4 out of 5by NC, 6 years agoThis Extension is nearly perfect! The best of the duplicate tab closing extensions on Firefox. I would love to see a couple features that I think would push this into the perfect 5* range.
[1] Whitelist should be available with the 'do nothing' option so that it applies to the "Close All" button as well, so that I can exclude certain pages (such as New Tab or about:blank) but still use that option.
[2] Add the option to pop up a Notification on duplicate. Automatically removing tabs has caused me issues, so I do not use that feature, but I still would love an option to know when I am duplicating an existing tab in the moment.
[3] In the duplicate tab notification window it would be nice to have the options to close New or Old duplicated tab, or to do nothing.
Thanks for all the hard work!Developer response
posted 5 days agoOn point 1: this is already available in v4.2.0. The hide-whitelisted button in the duplicate tabs footer makes the "Close duplicates" button skip whitelisted tabs, regardless of whether auto-close is on or off. New Tab and about:blank pages are also excluded from detection entirely, so they will never appear in the list or be affected by "Close duplicates".
On point 2 (notification on duplicate): the "Open popup on duplicate detected" option in the Options page already does this. When enabled, the popup opens automatically each time a new duplicate is detected, so you are immediately aware without any automatic closing.
On point 3 (choose new/old/nothing per duplicate): when the popup opens automatically (see point 2), you can see exactly which tabs are duplicates and use the X button next to any row to close whichever one you want. The global default for which tab is kept is also configurable via the Priority settings ("Keep older tab" / "Keep newer tab"). - Rated 5 out of 5by KandaAka, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by circcc, 6 years ago-Shrunk mode bug-
when all options are unpinned and then all options are hidden by shrunk mode, I can't unhide them again. when I click shrunk mode button, nothing is happens.Developer response
posted 5 days agoThis is a known bug that was fixed in v4.2.0. Updating the extension should resolve it. - Rated 5 out of 5by jam, 6 years agoDoes exactly what it says on the tin. Quite essential if you've got loads of tabs open and tend to open the same stuff...
- Rated 5 out of 5by addon_tester, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Luke, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nayenezgani, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manohar Bhat, 6 years agoworks great!!. Additionally one thing i want is that it should detect duplicate tabs in same container but different windows. When scope is selected as "container" i am able to open duplicate tabs for a particular container across different firefox windows.
i can select scope as "all windows" but then I will not be able to open duplicate tabs in different containers.
Update: Thanks for implementing thisDeveloper response
posted 6 years agoHello, A new version has been released with the scope options 'Container in active window' and 'Container in all windows' - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15265389, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hélio, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mar2ck, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Antonio, 6 years agoIt has all of the options I need like keeping the newer tab open or eliminating the search part from the url. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12564382, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by piecevcake, 7 years agoWorks perfectly and very useful. Nicely set up, with important options easily accessed. Thank you dev!
1 question - can you have the Container and All windows options both selected? If so, a tick next to container option would be helpful.
A feature request-would be helpful if the dups list was colour-coded by container (or some other ID) and ability to select the tab in the correct container to keep (or maybe keep 2 selected tabs in 2 containers and delete the other 8 dups or in wrong containers!)Developer response
posted 6 years agoHello, A new version has been released with the scope options 'Container in active window' and 'Container in all windows'.
I don't get the other feature request but you can reexplain here https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by grahamperrin, 7 years agoOutstanding for its ability to find duplicates across multiple windows.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikita, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15224247, 7 years agoThanks Dev, for this add-on.
It has been doing a good job for months, but seems to be inactive since a few weeks.
My 5-star review stands anyway. Thank you again. - Rated 5 out of 5by amoralis, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Lemons22, 7 years agoIt works OK, but it is very slow. I'm a tab hoarder and the addon showed nearly 800 duplicate tabs when I first downloaded it. I thought it would be a simple matter of hitting the "Close all duplicate tabs" button to get rid of the tabs, but nope! That crashed Firefox. Not only that, but when I restarted not a single duplicate tab had been dealt with...so either the process removes them all or it just crashes and removes none of them. Great.
So then I started removing the duplicates one by one, which is a time consuming process considering the addon lags for a good 2-3 seconds when closing each tab. Even attempting to quickly move through the list by simply going down and rapidly clicking the x's doesn't speed it up...it's just slow. I finally just made a mouse macro that clicked through them for me using a program called Mouse Recorder Premium...for those without such a program this part would have sucked!
So I pared the list down to 500. As an experiment I wanted to see if the addon would handle 500. Nope. Crashed again, but this time it also decided to crash Firefox every single time I tried to restart it as well...great! I disabled the addon after a few crashes and FF was able to start again. When I re-enabled the addon it was clear not a single tab had been removed and I still had 500.
Finally, I ran my macro a bit more and got it down to 150 (I actually wanted to stop at 250 and see if it would handle that but I got distract and the macro had already ran it down to 150 when I check it again...oh well). Now here's the reason why I didn't just rate this thing 1 star. It actually dealt with the 150 tabs pretty easily. Click the button and POOF they're gone. So I would say for the average user this addon will work quite the treat, but if you're someone like me that has a massive duplicate tab problem, well, expect to put in some work clicking those little x's and waiting.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review and the tests.
I though I was mad with my 100 opened tabs but it seems to be nothing. :)
To solve this I think I'll need to store more tabs information instead of query Firefox.