Reviews for Duplicate Tabs Closer
Duplicate Tabs Closer by Peuj
117 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by jam, 4 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, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Luke, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nayenezgani, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manohar Bhat, 5 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 5 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, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hélio, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mar2ck, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Antonio, 5 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, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by piecevcake, 5 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 5 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, 5 years agoOutstanding for its ability to find duplicates across multiple windows.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikita, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15224247, 5 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, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Lemons22, 5 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 5 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13127223, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12438258, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14787146, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ramzes6, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14256680, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14660450, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AhJong, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13953457, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13119159, 6 years agoAs of October 2022 No longer functions at all. Removing.
Not a bad addon but could use a lot more functionality. For starters, it needs a whitelist for sites that are okay to duplicate, which is often necessary. Also, a simple "Close tab automatically" function really isn't the best way to handle a duplicate inadvertently being opened. For example, say you forget you've already got Google open and you type a search in the address bar (which I have set to auto open in a new tab). Rather than the new tab opening with the search I just typed, it switches to the old tab, with an old search in it, which is at first pretty disconcerting. In this case it makes more sense to close the old tab, not the new one, but again, maybe I actually do want them both open. There needs to be a white list. Did I say there needs to be a white list? There needs to be a white list.
RESPONSE TO DEVELOPER'S COMMENT: If you think I gave it two stars just for missing one feature, you didn't even bother to read the whole review. Two stars stands I now I don't even want to bother seeing if it's improved. You need to learn what reviews are for.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi,
You could have made it easier and shorter to simply request a White list. :)
It has already been requested and it's planned, I just miss time.
Note: 2 stars for a missing feature seems pretty strict (even I don't care, I just share for free an add-on I've developed for me)