Chrome Close Lock
Prevent Chrome from closing without warning.
This extension opens a tab that can't be closed without your permission.
This prevents you from accidentally closing a multi-tab browsing session.
!!! NEW VERSION !!!
We listened to everyone's comments and made a better but more simplified version of Chrome Close Lock.
Click the GREEN button on the Chrome Close Lock start page to enable protection.
The new Activation Auto Reminder feature reminds you to make sure you activate Chrome Close Lock's protection.
NOTE: Chrome Close Lock protection is no longer automatically activated. Newer versions of Chrome now require you to interact with the page to activate the code that makes Chrome Close Lock work. We added the enable button for this purpose.
Chrome version 88 or higher is required.
Latest reviews
tabs are still closing with no reminder at all.
Very nice and useful, but its implementation is strange and it needs to be hidden like other extensions . It better be active all time and hidden . Thanks
Doesn't work the way I had hoped, offering a warning when the window is closed, not the tab - so basically it won't stop you closing any website unless there are no other tabs open in that window. I was hoping for something that automatically engages on specific websites, not something that needs to be turned on manually every time. Having to have a weird extra tab open to operate the app is clunky to say the least, and the visual design of the app is ugly and excessive.
I can see no reason at all why you need to Read browsing history Manage apps, extensions, and themes These are the sort of activity used by hackers. Well, not on my computer. I've been using the app for a while now, it WAS brilliant. Now, it is disabled and going to be uninstalled.
Very helpful extension. But I enjoyed the kitten pictures. If embedding the pictures increased the size too much, how about adding an option to display the user's own pictures from a particular directory?
Hello dev, could you please bring back the option to enable locking each window by default? In the new version, I would have to manually activate the close window protection feature. I miss the days when all new browser windows are automatically protected the moment they're first created. I'm a lazy set-and-forget kind of person😂 I'm used to the days when the pinned protection tab doesn't kick in, I can click the extension button to lauch the dedicated pinned tab and thus activating protection feature. Edit: found one of your earlier reply to another reviewer. Sorry for the misunderstanding, it seems that Google has made the auto-enable impossible in newer Chrome versions.
A solution that helps prevent me from accidentally closing Chrome. I do agree with the other reviews that the visuals are very weird. Please make a basic theme that is just a blank page. There's no need for themes.
Perhaps if I had kept this installed for more than 30 seconds, I'd have gotten used to a weird permanent tab with a monster face on it. Please someone implement this functionality in a straightforward day.
Thank God, this saved my time to relogin on Chorme all the time....
Would be good if it was more customisable. At the moment it's truly the ugliest app in the Chrome Store. Works well enough if you can stand the ugliness though.
Visual is weird and takes up more memory than necessary. Also it's so glitchy anytime I use a pop out it glitches and tries opening 20 tabs, needs a lot of improving and bug patching.
it works as it should be, saved me from accidentally closing Chrome with tons of tabs, except for the themes and visual it absolutely needs a better alternative.
it works as it should be, saved me from accidentally closing Chrome with tons of tabs, except for the themes and visual it absolutely needs a better alternative.
working. but bad visual.
working. but bad visual.
the add-on is ok but why is it so weird? there doesn't need to be any themes. i just need a black page with minimal memory usage and that would be fine. also why does it need to be enabled every time?
how it works I not understand
Works so far. I haven't had the multiple pages open like others have reported.
Works so far. I haven't had the multiple pages open like others have reported.
Would've been a wonderful app and it does what it says it does but it keeps opening like a billion tabs and glitching every so often out of nowhere. Like, even if I'm not interacting with the window, it'll just spasm out of nowhere then lock up my chrome so I can't use it.
Would've been a wonderful app and it does what it says it does but it keeps opening like a billion tabs and glitching every so often out of nowhere. Like, even if I'm not interacting with the window, it'll just spasm out of nowhere then lock up my chrome so I can't use it.
Used to be great. Past few months, it occasionally (once every 2 weeks) glitches and opens a few dozen times in the same Chrome browser window, lagging the browser to the point of freezing. 5 minutes later it crashes the extension and I have access to my tabs again.
Used to be great. Past few months, it occasionally (once every 2 weeks) glitches and opens a few dozen times in the same Chrome browser window, lagging the browser to the point of freezing. 5 minutes later it crashes the extension and I have access to my tabs again.
***Use "Closure" instead*** "Chrome Close Lock" was working fine until about a month ago. It was one of my favorite extensions. Now if enabled, the extension opens dozens of duplicate pages and freezes the browser for at least 30 minutes. To get back to a functioning browser, you have to close each opened tab one by one. I've searched all through the chrome store, and I finally found the perfect one named "Closure." It's a wonderful app that works like I want - doesn't let me accidentally close Chrome. Simply right click on a unused and pinned tab (preferably) and a notification window will pop up asking permission to not close the window without consent. Works well and easy to use. The Closure extension can be found here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closure/jjagagcgljmlnihcilbpbfcglnopepjb
***Use "Closure" instead*** "Chrome Close Lock" was working fine until about a month ago. It was one of my favorite extensions. Now if enabled, the extension opens dozens of duplicate pages and freezes the browser for at least 30 minutes. To get back to a functioning browser, you have to close each opened tab one by one. I've searched all through the chrome store, and I finally found the perfect one named "Closure." It's a wonderful app that works like I want - doesn't let me accidentally close Chrome. Simply right click on a unused and pinned tab (preferably) and a notification window will pop up asking permission to not close the window without consent. Works well and easy to use. The Closure extension can be found here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/closure/jjagagcgljmlnihcilbpbfcglnopepjb
Useless.........dont bother......instant uninstall
do to be useful as what it stated as, but seem like something wrong with the programming, it will open multiple or a lot lock tab, when i just open a tab in new window, starting to encounter problem on open a lot of unecessary lock tab after use it long time, this problem need to be solve.
do to be useful as what it stated as, but seem like something wrong with the programming, it will open multiple or a lot lock tab, when i just open a tab in new window, starting to encounter problem on open a lot of unecessary lock tab after use it long time, this problem need to be solve.
TERRIBLE !! Seemed like a great idea - and appeared to be, at first.... ..but not for long.... When I start up Chrome it usually asks if I want to restore all pages - which I ALWAYS do... This app then hijacks them all, sends CPU usage to 100% for at least half an hour, sends Chrome usage to over 80%, and replaces multiple tabs on different windows (randomly) with red or blue warming triangle icons, ands nothing works - can swap windows, but all tabs unresponsive... Then costs me 30-60 mins waiting, trying to respond to flashing triangle icons, and then loses some of my Chrome windows with anything from 10-50 tabs on them... ..then they dont show up in 'recently closed' list, as the list is full of 'Close Lock' entries closed by itself after randomly opening them. So, then I have to try and find all those tabs again, recreate the lost Chrome Groups, and put them all back in - complete NIGHTMARE. Absolute BLOODY DISASTER... ....sorry mate - you need to fix this random lockup resource waster or delete it....
TERRIBLE !! Seemed like a great idea - and appeared to be, at first.... ..but not for long.... When I start up Chrome it usually asks if I want to restore all pages - which I ALWAYS do... This app then hijacks them all, sends CPU usage to 100% for at least half an hour, sends Chrome usage to over 80%, and replaces multiple tabs on different windows (randomly) with red or blue warming triangle icons, ands nothing works - can swap windows, but all tabs unresponsive... Then costs me 30-60 mins waiting, trying to respond to flashing triangle icons, and then loses some of my Chrome windows with anything from 10-50 tabs on them... ..then they dont show up in 'recently closed' list, as the list is full of 'Close Lock' entries closed by itself after randomly opening them. So, then I have to try and find all those tabs again, recreate the lost Chrome Groups, and put them all back in - complete NIGHTMARE. Absolute BLOODY DISASTER... ....sorry mate - you need to fix this random lockup resource waster or delete it....
It works. However, once you open multiple tabs all at once, the whole Chrome freezes up!
Not worked today... please fix it Thanks it work again
Not worked today... please fix it Thanks it work again
does exactly what it says. it doesn't take up space in tabs when i pin it. opens for every window. 2023May24 06:46:52pm Update: Didn't work briefly and then works again. Thank God, and thank you!
does exactly what it says. it doesn't take up space in tabs when i pin it. opens for every window. 2023May24 06:46:52pm Update: Didn't work briefly and then works again. Thank God, and thank you!
Works now, thanks. I'll upgrade my rating to 5 stars if we get an option to enable the close lock by default when you open chrome. I've always felt that this extension would be infinitely better with an auto-enable option.
Works now, thanks. I'll upgrade my rating to 5 stars if we get an option to enable the close lock by default when you open chrome. I've always felt that this extension would be infinitely better with an auto-enable option.
Stopped working today, please fix. I'll update my rating if it's fixed.
Addon is dead, not working now!
Addon is dead, not working now!
Keeps me from having to start my work over as my mouse tends to jump from the scrollbar to the close button lately.
Keeps me from having to start my work over as my mouse tends to jump from the scrollbar to the close button lately.
Good idea. Extension can only be better if only turned on that "tab" automatically. P.S. Also it would be nice to change that crazy bg images)
Good idea. Extension can only be better if only turned on that "tab" automatically. P.S. Also it would be nice to change that crazy bg images)
Each time you have to turn it on manually!
Each time you have to turn it on manually!
I want to use Chrome Close Lock default as ON please change it.
I want to use Chrome Close Lock default as ON please change it.
Works wonderfully.
Works wonderfully.
