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Reduce tab clutter - prevent duplicate tabs, quickly search & switch tabs, and more...
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** Automatically detect and close duplicate tabs
Preventing and closing duplicates tabs is the core mission. The extension runs in the background, checking when tabs are opened or links are clicked to see whether the target webpage is already open. If open, the extension switches focus to the existing tab, instead of opening a duplicate.
NEW: Quick Tab Search - search, switch to and close tabs. (Similar to ‘Go to tab’)
NEW: List all duplicate tabs, close them directly from list.
Tune the core functionality using options - add websites or domains to allow-list to allow duplicates, or use the block-list to only block duplicates on certain websites.
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OTHER FEATURES:
1. Quick Tab Search (Ctrl/Command + Shift + L)
- Search and switch to tabs across Chrome windows
- Close, duplicate, allow-list, or move tab to new window
- Keyboard shortcuts for all common actions - search, select, switch, close tabs (more coming soon)
2. Direct Switch - ClutterFree highlights links on webpages that are already open in another tab. Clicking a highlighted link switches directly the tab where the link is already open.
3. Open tab count - See number of open tabs on extension button
4. List duplicate tabs (e.g. in switched-off mode, or after installing)
- Close all duplicates with a direct click
- Selectively close duplicates
- Original tabs marked with a special icon
5. Keyboard shortcuts and right-click menu options for quick actions:
- Open extension window,
- Duplicate current tab,
- Move a tab to the end,
- Add page to allow-list, and more
6. Detects duplicates suspended by 'The Great Suspender' extension
7. Search tabs from address bar - type `cf` and space to search, and switch to open tabs
8. Detect all pre-existing duplicates, and prompt to close them
9. No analytics or tracking, including Google Analytics
10. Export and import settings to file - to set up different Chrome profiles to same settings
11. Periodic statistics on duplicates prevented, and top domains for duplicates
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PERMISSIONS
>> "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"
This phrase above is how Chrome describes when an extension uses the 'tabs' and "all_sites" permissions.
The extension needs these permissions to manage tabs - checking for, preventing, and closing duplicates.
You may read more about 'tabs' permissions here: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs
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UPDATES
UPDATE 11 Aug 2024:
- Added MV3 support. Please report any bugs from within the extension.
UPDATE 19 Mar 2023:
- Downgraded to manifest version 2 due to issues with Google's MV3 implementation
UPDATE 14 Feb 2023:
- All supporter features are now free for everyone
UPDATE 23 Oct 2022:
- Fixed support for The Great suspender alternatives
UPDATE 14 Nov 2021:
- Supporter subscriptions are available for purchase again
UPDATE 07 Jul 2021:
- Add support for alternates to The Great Suspender
UPDATE 25/28 Aug 2020:
- Set a tab count limit to control number of open tabs
- Support for reward products
UPDATE 17 Jul 2020:
- Ignore hash and ignore query, on all websites, are out of experimental features
- Advanced URL management
- Ignore hash and ignore query for selected websites
UPDATE 14 Jul 2020:
- Show all tabs from same domain as current tab
- from keyboard shortcut, right-click menu, or search window
- Close all tabs from same domain as current tab
- from keyboard shortcut or right-click menu
UPDATE 10 Jul 2020:
Customisable keyboard shortcut actions
- Choose from more than a dozen actions
UPDATE 07 Jul 2020:
Tab Search window updates
- Copy all tabs to clipboard
- Move tabs - to end or start of window
- Pin/un-pin tabs
UPDATE 06 Jul 2020:
- Option to ignore query parameter when comparing duplicates (?a=b...)
- Suspend and unsuspend tabs from tab search (uses The Great Suspender extension)
- Search for suspended / unsuspended tabs with 'is:suspended'
UPDATE 03 Jul 2020:
- Added allow list and block list options, replacing whitelist
- Domain block list is out of experimental features
- Other minor bug fixes and updates
UPDATE 29 Apr 2020:
- Added 'System theme' option for extension window
- Extension window themes are now available to all users
- Minor fixes and code updates
UPDATE 03 Jul 2019:
Building on update from 10 May (below): When a link redirects to a previously open tab, the duplicate tab returns to previous tab before closing. This allows Chrome's 'Reopen closed tab' shortcut action to work as usual. Thanks to Joakim Nilsson for the suggestion.
In a future update, this will become default behaviour: On clicking a link that is already open, the source tab will close. It will go back to the previous page before closing if the duplicate URL is after automatic redirection. Currently this behaviour is in advanced settings.
UPDATE 12 Jun 2019:
Updates for compatibility with latest version of 'The Great Suspender' extension
+ some bug fixes
UPDATE 10 May 2019:
1. New: Option to close source tab when clicking a duplicate link (available under advanced settings)
2. Bug fixes
UPDATE 4 Mar 2019: Settings export/import & more
1. Export/import settings to/from a file to set up a different Chrome profile
2. Bug Fix: Added Momentum's new tab page to allow-list
3. Bug Fix: Check target tab URL before switching (to prevent direct switch to obsolete tabs)
UPDATE 29 Jan 2019: Bug fixes & minor updates
1. Bug Fix: Redirect loops caused when opening same document again from drive.google.com
2. Renamed extension on/off state as ‘active’ and ‘passive’ states
3. Tab search popup opens in the same size and location where last closed
4. Option to open tab search in attached state (some features don't work in attached state)
UPDATE 22 Dec 2018: Dark theme
1. Dark theme option for tab search and duplicates windows
2. Darker direct switch link indicators on light coloured webpages, vice versa
UPDATE 15 Dec 2018: Quick tab search (updated!)
1. Lighter, faster tab search with direct access to tab actions - switch, close, duplicate, allow-list, or move to a new window. Pinning and suspending (Great Suspender) coming soon.
2. Red dot to indicate all duplicates - including those created using the Clutter Free menu or keyboard shortcut (alt + shift + d)
3. Updates to notifications, including option to disable the 'Duplicate tabs found' notification
UPDATE 10 Dec 2018: Duplicate tabs - indicator & lists
1. A red dot on extension button to indicate that duplicate tabs are open
2. See list of open duplicate tabs, and close all or selectively
UPDATE 5 Dec 2018: Context menu update
1. Shorter menu item name when multiple context menus are added - now it just says 'Clutter Free'
UPDATE 22 Nov 2018: Notifications upgraded
1. New in-page notification style - they only show inside Chrome, not on the desktop.
2. Finer control over notifications - decide between ClutterFree styled, or default Chrome notifications, or switch them off entirely
3. Reopen closed duplicates from notification
4. BUG FIX: Tabs occasionally moved to the wrong location when duplicate opened in background
UPDATE 7 Nov 2018:
1. Moved all settings to synced storage so they update across machines
2. Remove AutoConvert Select link in extension window if already installed
UPDATE 6 Nov 2018:
1. BUG FIX: Check for `command` key on Mac for links being opened in a background tab
2. Added links to my AutoConvert Select extension
3. Removed link to my AcceleReader for Pocket extension
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Privacy Policy: https://c306.net/apps/privacy/clutterfree/
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-11) Benny Avramson: With enough open tabs even with a powerful computer, it'll make the computer keep lagging. Without many open tabs, you don't really need this extension
- (2025-06-09) n ascentt: as others state, unusable. hard locks up the browser when installed. have to forcefully delete the extension to regain control of the browser. use taba watchdog instead, zero performance issues with that.
- (2025-05-13) Max (Lothrik): Unusable. I have around 240 tabs open across multiple windows, and this extension freezes my browser for 20+ seconds whenever I try to do basically anything. Restarting Chrome results in random tabs being closed by this extension because it thinks they're duplicates for some reason, when they aren't.
- (2025-02-03) Leon Noël: *****USER BEWARE***** Unusable unless you don't need to use it. Your RAM usage will increase until full, drop down, then repeat, over & over with this extension enabled. In a system with over 200 Chrome Tabs Chrome was completely unusable, had to go into the Chrome `C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions folder & delete the recently created folder to get into Chrome. On another system with only 30 Tabs I was able to scroll task manager but there'd be multiple minute pauses between when you scroll & when you see it scroll on the screen. It completely filled the 8GB of RAM on this system, then would drop back to only 1.5GB used, then fill up, over & over with no other programs running & only 30 tabs open.
- (2025-01-16) Matt Bernius: As others have said, the extension isn't working as well as it used to. While I don't have the issue with it slowing down that others report, it appears to have stopped working with Google Docs. Since I work at an organization that relies on Google Docs this is less than optimal as I end up having the same document/spreadsheet/presentation open in multiple tabs and keep opening versions and new tabs.
- (2024-12-28) Owen Myth: Unfortunately, this extension no longer works as well as it used to. It used to be the best in its category, but now it has several issues. For example, the extension often fails to open, and I have to delete and reinstall it repeatedly just to get it to work. I've had to do this multiple times over the past few months.
- (2024-10-18) Daniel Owen: Slows the new tabs to between 15 and 30 secs to open, unfortunately that makes it unusable for me. I like it other wise, but simply cant use due to the tab opening issue.
- (2024-10-11) Kiran Kumar: Earlier, it used to work flawlessly. Lately, it is pathetic - system freezes but still it is not preventing the duplicate tabs.
- (2024-10-02) Nisarg Shah: Works great but the plugin makes the browser extremely slow, opening new tabs take 3 seconds.
- (2024-09-24) Mohammad Mahdi: With lots of Tabs (150+) the browser come to a crawl when using this extension. Don't recommend until a fix for lots of tabs is introduced.
- (2024-09-23) Jessica Gutowski: I love it when it works. But it doesn't do anything now so I have to uninstall it. Chrome has been lagging for me too. I wonder if it's this.
- (2024-09-09) Alan: having the same issue as other users commented recently, chrome is freezing and stuck frequently.
- (2024-09-06) Wasif Iqbal: Its amazing when its at work but I also experienced it freezing Chrome & drastically slowing it down. Have to keep turning the ext on & off when needed.
- (2024-09-02) Willahelm Powers: Always loved the extension. Generally had to just switch it on long enough to find dupes and remove them, then switch off, as I usually have a lot of tabs and running all the time lagged Chrome too much. But now I can't use it at all, because it always freezes Chrome whenever it is on & it's difficult and time consuming simply trying to switch it off. Even restarting Chrome, if it is already on, immediately super lags and seizes Chrome, never allowing me to see and remove dupes & making serious issue even turning it off. Maybe if you don't use as high an amount of open tabs as I do it will still work ok.
- (2024-08-25) Miguel Risco Castillo: It was working fine, but recently I noticed high CPU usage by Chrome, after disabling this extension the CPU usage returned to normal.
- (2024-08-22) John McCabe: I've been using this for a while, and it's been great (although I've always had it in passive mode), however, over the last couple of weeks I've noticed Chrome being seriously laggy and, by a process of elimination, discovered Clutter Free was causing it so, unfortunately, for now, I can't recommend it.
- (2024-08-22) Nav H.: Stopped working after it moved to manifest v3. Hopefully its fixed.
- (2024-08-16) Ernesto Pinto: Is one of the most helpful extensions in managing tabs, however the latest update causes the browser to freeze every few minutes.
- (2024-08-13) Aly Nguyen: It was working great. Unfortunately, freezes browser with new patch 8/11/2024
- (2024-08-06) Elizabeth Knight: It's going to be a real blow to my productivity if this extension goes away. Please update soon!
- (2024-08-02) CFB IT Support: Great extension, works perfectly!!! Hope the developer updates it soon before Google removes it!!!
- (2024-07-31) Kevin Barthman: Does what it says, but given that it just gave me a popup to checkout another extension they have developed that I have no interest in, on top of chrome indicating this extension is not following best practices, I no longer trust this extension and cannot recommend it.
- (2024-05-10) Afirmanta: It's kind of nice and good but extremly slow/laggy I have 300 tabs and decent PC ryzen 5 3600 overall CPU usage is less than 20% when it lags and chrome usage is 16%
- (2024-03-08) Clint Armstrong: I have been enjoying this extension, until just now when it popped up a system notification of another extension by the same author. This is unacceptable. Websites need permission to send notifications, but browser extensions don't. If this developer is willing to do that to advertise to me, what else are they going to put into this extension in the future?
- (2024-02-16) Vamshi R: Very useful tool
- (2024-01-29) Reggie: No longer works
- (2024-01-23) Elizabeth Lomax-Laidlaw: Does not work
- (2024-01-16) Jason Potter: Surely there should be an option to block individual addresses not just a total domain blackout. These examples are auto opened as second tabs whenever I open the main site : https://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=snxgb5-21 https://tesco.pxf.io Domain block doesn't just block duplicates, it blocks all other pages from that domain.
- (2023-12-27) Artemi Lebedev: Consumes 20 to 80 percent of CPU resources
- (2023-12-25) Educate_ Jared: This Extension is very useful, Now my computer would experience good performance😊😊
- (2023-10-03) status102: 挺有用的，但是在标签页较多时容易造成Chrome崩溃，而且比较卡顿、消耗CPU资源较多。 在500+标签页时，有时会出现标签页数量统计出错
- (2023-08-03) Victor Cretu: This extension is really a life saver for people that open tens of tabs. At that point you start to loose track of open tabs and duplication starts to happen. This extension has saved me from duplicating my work inside the browser.
- (2023-08-03) Victor Cretu: This extension is really a life saver for people that open tens of tabs. At that point you start to loose track of open tabs and duplication starts to happen. This extension has saved me from duplicating my work inside the browser.
- (2023-05-10) Cobus Van Wyk: My work requires loads of research and I've had the Clutter Free extention installed on all five my browsers for years and its magic. I regularly have 30 to 120 tabs open on each of the 2 or 3 browsers that I use simultaneously, and to date CF unerringly prevented any tab duplication, which helps massively in such an overcrowded desktop environment.
- (2023-05-10) Cobus Van Wyk: My work requires loads of research and I've had the Clutter Free extention installed on all five my browsers for years and its magic. I regularly have 30 to 120 tabs open on each of the 2 or 3 browsers that I use simultaneously, and to date CF unerringly prevented any tab duplication, which helps massively in such an overcrowded desktop environment.
- (2023-03-16) Syed Ashraful Karim: Works fine. But I think it should refresh the already open tab when the new duplicate tab is not opened, or there should be a settings whether I like to refresh the opened duplicate tab which is gonna highlighted.
- (2023-03-16) Syed Ashraful Karim: Works fine. But I think it should refresh the already open tab when the new duplicate tab is not opened, or there should be a settings whether I like to refresh the opened duplicate tab which is gonna highlighted.
- (2023-03-05) Ym M: I was using this with hundreds of tabs open and was working flawlessly. However, something changed recently that made chrome extremely slow opening a new tab when this ext is enabled. Only option was to uninstall it.
- (2023-03-05) Ym M: I was using this with hundreds of tabs open and was working flawlessly. However, something changed recently that made chrome extremely slow opening a new tab when this ext is enabled. Only option was to uninstall it.
- (2023-02-21) Adam Clark: About a week ago, there started to be an appreciable pause when a new tab is opened and chrome freezes for a few seconds. I went through and disabled all extensions and it was only until this one was re-instated that the issue returned. Even does it when just typing into the address bar sometimes, I guess it is triggering the Url change hook or whatever it uses to de-dupe tabs.
- (2023-02-21) Adam Clark: About a week ago, there started to be an appreciable pause when a new tab is opened and chrome freezes for a few seconds. I went through and disabled all extensions and it was only until this one was re-instated that the issue returned. Even does it when just typing into the address bar sometimes, I guess it is triggering the Url change hook or whatever it uses to de-dupe tabs.
- (2023-02-21) Roderick Dunn: Works well until you have a certain number of tabs open, then chrome starts moving extremely slowly. I had to disable it for now because I always have a ton of tabs open. Would recommend for people who don't keep 50+ tabs open.
- (2023-02-21) Roderick Dunn: Works well until you have a certain number of tabs open, then chrome starts moving extremely slowly. I had to disable it for now because I always have a ton of tabs open. Would recommend for people who don't keep 50+ tabs open.
- (2023-01-27) Konstantin K.: It was fine extension when it closed duplicate tabs automatically. Unfortunately now in settings this option is marked "Hard limit—Block new tabs when limit is reached. (not yet ready)".
- (2023-01-27) Konstantin K.: It was fine extension when it closed duplicate tabs automatically. Unfortunately now in settings this option is marked "Hard limit—Block new tabs when limit is reached. (not yet ready)".
- (2022-12-17) Cristofer: asco de extension,usa demasiada cpu en veces y aveces ni siquiera marca las pestañas duplicadas
- (2022-12-16) Cade Michaels: Great tool. Really needs ability to disable temporarily though. Sometimes I want to open something in multiple windows but I either have to remove the plugin completely or add rules. Right click menu or in plugin context menu would be great.
- (2022-12-16) Cade Michaels: Great tool. Really needs ability to disable temporarily though. Sometimes I want to open something in multiple windows but I either have to remove the plugin completely or add rules. Right click menu or in plugin context menu would be great.
- (2022-12-16) Nathan: Floating window refuses to work no matter what which cripples the app.
- (2022-12-16) Nathan: Floating window refuses to work no matter what which cripples the app.