A Chrome & Firefox extension that automatically closes tabs you haven't used in a while so you can focus on the tabs that matter
- Tab Wrangler for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh
- Tab Wrangler for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabwrangler/
- The Corral: Stores tabs which have been auto-closed so you can re-open as required.
- Exclude list: Provide the urls or domain names of the sites you never want auto-closed.
- Tab Lock: Pick open tabs to "lock". Locked tabs will not be auto-closed.
- Configurable: Pick how long a tab should be considered ready to close and how many tabs should be open at a minimum.
- Smart: Doesn't autoclose pinned tabs, doesn't close all your tabs, just enough to make your browser usable.
- Click on the icon next to the URL bar
- Tab Corral
- Stores tabs which have been auto-closed. Restoring tabs with green leaf icons on their right sides will have their full history and scroll positions saved. (Full history restore is limited by the browser to the last 25 closed tabs.)
- Tab Lock
- Selectively lock tabs which you want to stay open.
- See the time remaining before each tab will be checked for auto-closing.
- Options
- Whitelist certain URLs to never be closed.
- Set the amount of time to wait before closing inactive tabs.
- Set the ideal number of tabs to have in your browser.
- Configure keyboard shortcuts.
- Tab Corral
You can back up your list of closed tabs as well as the number of tabs Tab Wrangler has closed by using the import/export functionality in the Settings tab.
- Open Tab Wrangler
- Switch to the Settings tab
- Scroll to Import / Export
- Click Export
If you previously backed up / exported your list of tabs, follow these steps to restore the list in Tab Wrangler. Note: this will overwrite Tab Wrangler's tabs list; ensure you are not overwriting tabs that you wanted to save.
- Open Tab Wrangler
- Switch to the Settings tab
- Scroll to Import / Export
- Click Import
- Select the file created during back up, it will be named similarly to "TabWranglerExport-6-18-2017.json"
Tab Wrangler's settings are saved and synced by your browser, like Chrome sync for example, to all of your logged in browser sessions if you have sync enabled. Their possible values and their usages are described in the following table:
| Setting | Default | Possible Values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
checkInterval |
5000 |
0 < checkInterval |
How often Tab Wrangler should check for stale tabs to close (in milliseconds) |
debounceOnActivated |
false |
Whether to wait 1 second before resetting the active tab's timer | |
filterAudio |
false |
Whether to prevent auto-closing tabs that are playing audio | |
lockedIds |
[] |
Array of tab IDs that have been explicitly locked by the user | |
maxTabs |
100 |
0 <= maxTabs <= 1000 |
Maximum number of tabs to keep in the tab list |
minTabs |
5 |
0 <= minTabs |
Auto-close tabs only if there are more than this number open |
minutesInactive |
20 |
0 <= minutesInactive |
How much time (+ secondsInactive) before a tab is considered "stale" and ready to close |
paused |
false |
Whether TabWrangler is paused (shouldn't count down) | |
purgeClosedTabs |
false |
Whether to empty the closed tab list when the browser closes | |
secondsInactive |
0 |
0 <= secondsInactive |
How much time (+ minutesInactive) before a tab is considered "stale" and ready to close |
showBadgeCount |
true |
Whether to show the length of the closed tab list as a badge on the URL bar icon | |
whitelist |
['about:', 'chrome://'] |
Array of patterns to check against. If a tab's URL matches a pattern, the tab is never auto-closed | |
wrangleOption |
'withDupes' |
'exactURLMatch', 'hostnameAndTitleMatch', 'withDupes' |
How to handle duplicate entries in the closed tabs list |
Tab Wrangler does not transmit any data about you or your usage of Tab Wrangler. There is no tracking, there are no analytics, and there are no advertisements.
Help translating Tab Wrangler is greatly appreciated. You can contribute on the Tab Wrangler Crowdin Project, which makes it easy for anyone to contribute.
- 🇩🇪 German translation by ingorichter
- 🇰🇷 Korean translation by simple-is-best
- 🇷🇺 Russian translation by Voknehzyr
Pull requests for bug fixes and features are more than welcome. Please check out the "Developing" section of the CONTRIBUTING doc to see how to get started. Once your code is working and tested, submit a pull request to this primary project and we'll get going.
- Modernized and maintained by ssorallen in 2017
- Rewritten by JacobSingh in 2012
- Original extension and idea by jacktasia in 2010