Keep One Pinned Tab
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Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.
Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.
This extension prevents Chrome from closing when you close the final tab in a window. It keeps one pinned, blank tab always open as the first tab in your tab bar, and reopens it if it is closed.
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Inspired by "Live On":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-on/oficfgdfeoknbjfhommlpiekdapmnebh/
Icons by Everaldo Coelho:
http://www.everaldo.com/
Project released open-source, Github project available:
https://github.com/theborg3of5/KeepOnePinnedTab
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Please note that this was made for personal use, so replies and fixes may be delayed.
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Changelog:
1.0: Initial Release.
1.1: Bugfix: now takes into account whether the window is a popup vs. normal, and allows selection of special tab to aid in easier ctrl+tabbing.
1.2: Broke main functionality with last update, now fixed.
1.3: Extending closing functionality to second, semi-special tab.
2.0: Back from hiatus! Fixed the issue where a new pinned tab would appear upon every startup for some users, and moved the close-extra-new-tabs functionality out to a new extension, called "Close Extra New Tabs" (see other apps by this developer).
3.0: Added an options page! You can now set what URL you want the pinned tab to have, rather than it always being your new tab page. Defaults to new tab page if you don't set it.
3.1: Fixed an issue where the extension would open tabs forever, sorry folks!
3.2: Took out a console.log() that was left in (no functional impact).
4.0: Major update! Changes:
- Built-in options for pages to pin.
- Option: no focus special pinned tab.
- Squashed all known bugs.
4.1: A few small bugfixes:
- Don't open two new tabs (+ pinned one) when opening a new window.
- Work correctly in incognito mode.
4.2: Fix issue where we keep opening new pinned tabs when Chrome is allowed to stay open in the background
5.0: Complete rewrite and upgrade to manifest v3!
- Fixes the "never focus pinned tab" setting.
- Cleans up the settings page (and changes how we store settings behind the scenes).
Latest reviews
- Rich Griese
- Make it work with local files. Files that begin with file:///
- Piotr Dobrogost
- When a new window is created due to a tab being dragged out of the existing one the extension does not work – there is no pinned tab in this new window. Could this be fixed? (I'm using version 5.0)
- Ned Peglar
- So simple and awesome but PLEASE allow more than one tab to be pinned. No pin tab chrome extension is a good as this but this limitation is really frustrating. I know the name says keep 'one' tab pinned, but this change will be so helpful. All the reviews are saying the same thing.
- Brodie Mitchinson
- Update: DEV! Could you add support for allowing users to make as many "global pinned tabs" as we want? In other words, if I could chose to make any of the pinned tabs in a right click context menu by the each. Also, a way to configure this to automatically happen with all pinned tabs and could then use the right click context menu on individual pinned tabs in order to exclude them from being global? Basically, two modes. Auto make global (across all windows) if pinned with ability to right click to exclude vs user selected via tab right click context menu. If I can contact you directly I'll try but kudos for your work and for mostly solving an issue that clearly a lot of people have with both major browsers.
- Brodie Mitchinson
- Update: DEV! Could you add support for allowing users to make as many "global pinned tabs" as we want? In other words, if I could chose to make any of the pinned tabs in a right click context menu by the each. Also, a way to configure this to automatically happen with all pinned tabs and could then use the right click context menu on individual pinned tabs in order to exclude them from being global? Basically, two modes. Auto make global (across all windows) if pinned with ability to right click to exclude vs user selected via tab right click context menu. If I can contact you directly I'll try but kudos for your work and for mostly solving an issue that clearly a lot of people have with both major browsers.
- Bradley Summers
- Would be better if I could specify multiple pinned tabs to always open. I'd love to always open 1 pinned tab for my work email, and one for my personal email. Oh well. Great otherwise. 4 stars for this reason.
- Krzysztof Pawlak
- Super.
- Krzysztof Pawlak
- Super.
- Roland Kenner
- After fighting with a different unname extension that insisted on focusing on the pinned tab, I discovered this one which does exactly what I want it to. Thanks.
- Roland Kenner
- After fighting with a different unname extension that insisted on focusing on the pinned tab, I discovered this one which does exactly what I want it to. Thanks.
- Bill Reinhardt
- Thank you! Really great utility.
- Bill Reinhardt
- Thank you! Really great utility.
- Melvin MacDonald
- Just went through a whole batch of extensions to find the functionality of this one and ended up on this one. This extension works perfectly as described and goes above and beyond with the simple but appreciated customization options. Thanks for the great utility.
- Melvin MacDonald
- Just went through a whole batch of extensions to find the functionality of this one and ended up on this one. This extension works perfectly as described and goes above and beyond with the simple but appreciated customization options. Thanks for the great utility.
- Чёрный Дембель
- Ласттаб перестал работать, это даже лучше. Мое уважение.
- Will Johnsson
- love it.
- Will Johnsson
- love it.
- Anonymous
- Чудове розширення, речно дякую!
- tenbai jo
- 试了很多方法，这个是目前最好的方法了。 推荐 blank dark + don't focus pinned tab 或者 custom ‘’常用网站” + focus pinned tab
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- Совсем не работает на Edge.
- Shane Hird
- This is the one you want. Configure 'blank light/dark' and 'never focus' and it behaves exactly the way Google chrome would had they implemented it natively, like they should have.
- Shane Hird
- This is the one you want. Configure 'blank light/dark' and 'never focus' and it behaves exactly the way Google chrome would had they implemented it natively, like they should have.
- Юлия Шестакова
- Прекрасно =)
- Александр Шестаков
- Отлично!
- aven R
- 每次打开都会加一个固定标签页，能不能把固定标签页的设置去掉
- FuQiang Wang
- 关闭最后的标签不会关闭浏览器，很好用无需设置
- Daniel Faust
- Excellent Extension. The one I was using previously stopped working (could no longer drag tabs to create new windows), but this one is even better. I checked the source code and no data is getting collected and uploaded to any URL (as of version 4.1). It's important to set the proper page to keep pinned in the options, else it creates a new pinned tab for each tab you close, but that may be because I also use the "New Tab Redirect" extension.
- Daniel Faust
- Excellent Extension. The one I was using previously stopped working (could no longer drag tabs to create new windows), but this one is even better. I checked the source code and no data is getting collected and uploaded to any URL (as of version 4.1). It's important to set the proper page to keep pinned in the options, else it creates a new pinned tab for each tab you close, but that may be because I also use the "New Tab Redirect" extension.
- Anonymous
- 是不是有点问题啊，为啥我每次打开固定标签页还会自动增加的
- grey payen
- 很有用，chrome关掉最后一个tab就关浏览器的设计实在太难习惯了。
- Craig Lambert
- Works as advertised. On my Chromebook it opens 2 empty tabs after Chrome is closed the first time. On start-up it's fine (just the one tab). I'd also like an Option to hide the pinned tab in the background and focus on the main tab. There is an option now but it's never focus. I still want to be able to select the pinned tab. All that being said, I like it.
- Craig Lambert
- Works as advertised. On my Chromebook it opens 2 empty tabs after Chrome is closed the first time. On start-up it's fine (just the one tab). I'd also like an Option to hide the pinned tab in the background and focus on the main tab. There is an option now but it's never focus. I still want to be able to select the pinned tab. All that being said, I like it.
- Kuro Senshi
- Always creates a new chrome window with 2 new tabs open (instead of the usual one). I tried a bit, but in the end i had to remove the extension.
- Kuro Senshi
- Always creates a new chrome window with 2 new tabs open (instead of the usual one). I tried a bit, but in the end i had to remove the extension.
- Анатолий А
- If you only want to remove delay between the moment when you click Chrome's icon and the moment when it opens a new window, then you may simply make Chrome continue running even after all its windows are closed. This can be done using the “Background Process” extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/background-process/gghpjpjkgffajicbeidilgkogpmianag
- 로리
- Good.
- 로리
- Good.
- Jim Stickney
- A year and a half later, same problem as Cameron Deemer. Each time you close and re-open, a new pinned tab is generated.
- Jim Stickney
- A year and a half later, same problem as Cameron Deemer. Each time you close and re-open, a new pinned tab is generated.
- Long Nguyen Xuan (LongTTH)
- it's work and save my life from accidentally close my incognito chrome when using public PC.
- Long Nguyễn Xuân (LongTTH)
- it's work and save my life from accidentally close my incognito chrome when using public PC.
- Andrey Leonenya
- то что надо!
- Daniel MacDonald
- Had to write a review as there are no screenshots. This is exactly as Cancino explained. I use FVD Speed Dial and it's great having there to open with all my saved websites and save a lot of hassle!
- Daniel MacDonald
- Had to write a review as there are no screenshots. This is exactly as Cancino explained. I use FVD Speed Dial and it's great having there to open with all my saved websites and save a lot of hassle!
- C D
- I had the same experience as Zhou. Each time I closed Chrome, then reopened it, I got more and more tabs. Finally up to 12 tabs and will have to delete this extension. If this bug if fixed, should be fine.
- C D
- I had the same experience as Zhou. Each time I closed Chrome, then reopened it, I got more and more tabs. Finally up to 12 tabs and will have to delete this extension. If this bug if fixed, should be fine.
- Zhou Liang
- Set lots of pinned tabs instead of ONE!!
- Zhou Liang
- Set lots of pinned tabs instead of ONE!!
- Stanislav Sladecek
- Great extension, works as a charm. Thank you.
- Stanislav Sladecek
- Great extension, works as a charm. Thank you.