Reviews for Duplicate Tabs Closer
Duplicate Tabs Closer by Peuj
Review by VS
Rated 2 out of 5
by VS, 4 years agoSo, this appears to promise automatic and manual resolution - perfect! Reality? You have to fight against this as soon as you don't do what it wants.
The most hilarious part is the manual deduplication. As the other person below notes, the "close all" button really closes all - it does NOT deduplicate your open tabs. That is to say, for 4 duplicated tabs, you get 0, not 1. So, not deduplication. It really is "close all", not "resolve all". In most cases you don't want to press it, ever.
If you want to resolve manually... Well, you get only a tiny bit of space for the list of all duplicates. You have to unpin the settings and collapse, exactly what you thought. Oh, did you think opening the settings in a tab will help, because it will scroll unlike the tiny popup, so you'd get a long list? Nope! Well, then, you finally collapse the settings, clicking left and right. And finally you can see it well - a list of tab names with [x], you click the [x], and... nothing happens! That's right, you have to refresh the whole settings tab to see the list updated. And did you think the list will be the same? Nooo, it is sorted, so as soon as you close one dupe and refresh, the list is in completely different order.
So, what did I expect? Lots more space for the duplicate list. Also, updating it in real time as you close the tabs, so I could just click over on the first item and as it closes, more shuffle back into the position, and of course when the last one remains, it is not a dupe anymore so it goes off the list. I also expected the close all button to do that dance for me.
As to the automatic resolution, that is also a bit weird. When you open all links in new tabs, then it probably works. But if you click a link to open in the current tab and it suddenly disappears, that's not exactly what I expected.
I'm really disappointed. But it does not even look like there are other addons that could do the job instead.
The most hilarious part is the manual deduplication. As the other person below notes, the "close all" button really closes all - it does NOT deduplicate your open tabs. That is to say, for 4 duplicated tabs, you get 0, not 1. So, not deduplication. It really is "close all", not "resolve all". In most cases you don't want to press it, ever.
If you want to resolve manually... Well, you get only a tiny bit of space for the list of all duplicates. You have to unpin the settings and collapse, exactly what you thought. Oh, did you think opening the settings in a tab will help, because it will scroll unlike the tiny popup, so you'd get a long list? Nope! Well, then, you finally collapse the settings, clicking left and right. And finally you can see it well - a list of tab names with [x], you click the [x], and... nothing happens! That's right, you have to refresh the whole settings tab to see the list updated. And did you think the list will be the same? Nooo, it is sorted, so as soon as you close one dupe and refresh, the list is in completely different order.
So, what did I expect? Lots more space for the duplicate list. Also, updating it in real time as you close the tabs, so I could just click over on the first item and as it closes, more shuffle back into the position, and of course when the last one remains, it is not a dupe anymore so it goes off the list. I also expected the close all button to do that dance for me.
As to the automatic resolution, that is also a bit weird. When you open all links in new tabs, then it probably works. But if you click a link to open in the current tab and it suddenly disappears, that's not exactly what I expected.
I'm really disappointed. But it does not even look like there are other addons that could do the job instead.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoIf you are still using the extension, a few things to clarify, some of which are addressed in recent versions.
"Close duplicates" keeps one tab. For 4 identical tabs, it closes 3 and keeps 1. The button was renamed from "Close all" to "Close duplicates" in v4.2.0, and the list now shows which tabs will be closed (strikethrough) versus which will be kept (full brightness), so the outcome should be predictable before you click.
Real-time list updates should work in the current version. Closing a tab via the X button triggers an immediate background update, and the list in the popup and options page refreshes automatically without needing a manual reload. If you are still seeing stale state after updating, please report it at https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer/issues.
The current tab disappearing when navigating is expected behavior in auto-close mode: if you navigate to a URL already open in another tab, your current tab is the duplicate and gets closed. Setting "On duplicate tab detected" to "Do nothing" switches to manual mode, where nothing is closed automatically.
Space for the list: v4.2.0 adds a two-column popup layout with options and the duplicate list side by side, which gives more room to the list without needing to collapse settings manually.
"Close duplicates" keeps one tab. For 4 identical tabs, it closes 3 and keeps 1. The button was renamed from "Close all" to "Close duplicates" in v4.2.0, and the list now shows which tabs will be closed (strikethrough) versus which will be kept (full brightness), so the outcome should be predictable before you click.
Real-time list updates should work in the current version. Closing a tab via the X button triggers an immediate background update, and the list in the popup and options page refreshes automatically without needing a manual reload. If you are still seeing stale state after updating, please report it at https://github.com/Peuj/duplicate-tabs-closer/issues.
The current tab disappearing when navigating is expected behavior in auto-close mode: if you navigate to a URL already open in another tab, your current tab is the duplicate and gets closed. Setting "On duplicate tab detected" to "Do nothing" switches to manual mode, where nothing is closed automatically.
Space for the list: v4.2.0 adds a two-column popup layout with options and the duplicate list side by side, which gives more room to the list without needing to collapse settings manually.
126 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by kartis56, 3 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 2 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, 16 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 2 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 2 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, 2 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 2 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.