Reviews for Duplicate Tabs Closer
Duplicate Tabs Closer by Peuj
Review by Lemons22
Rated 3 out of 5
by 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.
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.
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.
126 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by kartis56, 4 days ago4.1.5に更新した所、保存したセッションを開いて、さらに同一タブを開いたときに重複を検知できなくなった。
4.2.1 で治ってることを確認した。修正お疲れ様ですDeveloper response
posted 4 days agoThank you for the report!
I was unable to reproduce the issue on my end, but a fix for a related race condition was included in v4.2.0.
Could you please test with v4.2.0 and let me know if the problem is resolved?
If you can still reproduce it, it would really help to know:
What you mean by "saved session" (Firefox built-in session restore, or a session manager extension such as Tab Session Manager?)
Which mode you are using: auto-close or notify only
Your Firefox version
The exact steps to reproduce
Also, if possible, could you open a GitHub issue? It makes it much easier to track and follow up: https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer/issues
Thanks again! - Rated 5 out of 5by B Tang, 18 days agoWorks really well. You can configure it to ignore certain parts of the URL like after the search (?) part or hash (#) part of the URL as some sites will generate duplicate tabs with these parts different.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17532799, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19514842, 8 months agoWorks so sell that,
when I swithed to another pc, and the dup tabs won't close after pressing the shortcut key,
it took me quite long to realize that i havent installed this extension on new pc yet. - Rated 5 out of 5by たやまみ, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gl00ten, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ilovemikael, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Korwin, a year agoWorks great. I really like the "Filters" options - without them the extension would be pretty much useless to me.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kachajal, 2 years agoAbsolutely beautiful. Exactly what I wanted. Automatically closing older duplicate tabs when a new duplicate is opened should be a stock option in firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by RazorCMV, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13609694, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by BlackWinny, 2 years agoExcellent.
Drawback: the add-on seems to have been abandoned 4 years ago, as seen on Github:
https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer
But I find a bug:
Whatever your choice in "Priority" parameter in the Options, the add-on always keeps the oldest visited tab. This parameter seems to not work at all.
And I also have two little requests:
- First one: it would be nice not to include the tabs "New tab" in the list.
- And second one: it would be nice to disregard (ignore) a final "/".
Both requests could have their checkbox in the Option page (with On by default).
But I don't know what to think, given that the developments seem to have been abandoned 4 years ago.Developer response
posted 4 days agoHi,
The extension was indeed quiet for a while, but development has resumed and v4.2.0 was just released today.
Priority bug: You are right, this was a real bug. The "Keep newer tab" option was not working correctly due to a comparison error with uninitialized timestamps. It is fixed in v4.2.0.
New Tab pages: These are already excluded from duplicate detection. Both about:newtab (Firefox) and chrome://newtab/ (Chrome) are treated as blank pages and ignored. They will not appear in the duplicate list.
Trailing slash: Also already handled. URLs are normalized before comparison and trailing slashes are always stripped, so https://example.com/ and https://example.com are treated as the same URL.
If you are still using the extension, updating to v4.2.0 should fix the priority issue. - Rated 5 out of 5by Adrian, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16024671, 2 years agoWrite about my experience with this add-on? I wasted hours trying to figure out why I could have only one tab per domain. It didn't matter if the url was completely different. Utter POS because the PEUJ who designed it doesn't even know the meaning of "duplicate". IT MEANS "EXACTLY THE SAME", got that? Read again.
Developer response
posted 4 days agoWhat you experienced is the result of the "Ignore path part in URL (domain only)" option being enabled in your settings. When that option is on, the extension considers any two tabs on the same domain as duplicates, regardless of the path. It is off by default.
Turning that option off in the Options page will restore the default behavior, where only tabs with identical URLs are considered duplicates.
If you are still using the extension, v4.2.0 was just released with a number of UI improvements, including a clearer duplicate tabs list that shows which tabs will be closed. - Rated 5 out of 5by Uday, 2 years agobig productivity QoL for disorganized compulsive browsers (user)
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeFEcT, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by arsxrs, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by A FF User, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hacKim, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18054687, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Reiner030, 3 years agoSeems to work fine BUT ONLY IN ONE WINDOW ... I uses several windows and there are "no duplicates" found by this (and other) tab deduplication extension ...
Because of some somehow gone/lossed tabs I opened a saved session so I had to get rid of duplicated tabs.Developer response
posted 4 days agoBy default, the extension only searches for duplicates within the currently focused window. To detect duplicates across all open windows, change the "Scope" setting to "All windows" in the Options page.