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Prevent Chrome from closing without warning.
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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 FEATURE - THEMES !!!
Clicking the icon opens the options page to choose theme options.
Send your theme ideas via email.
Click the red button on the Chrome Close Lock start page to enable protection.
Chrome version 88 or higher is required.
Popup bug has been fixed in rev 3.
Incognitio window bug has been fixed in rev 5.
*NEW FEATURE* Activate by pressing a key added in rev 6.
May 20, 2023 update was an update of internal manifest file which accidentally broke the extension (SORRY).
Minor changes in rev 7 for compatibility with manifest v3.
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. We are actively working to make it fully automatic again.
Latest reviews
- (2024-05-22) ̣: 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.
- (2024-03-04) gen den (・_・): working. but bad visual.
- (2023-10-27) Zieneth Starr: Works so far. I haven't had the multiple pages open like others have reported.
- (2023-10-13) Brialynn M: 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.
- (2023-10-04) Sun Li: 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.
- (2023-08-27) Allison Griffin: ***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
- (2023-07-10) Foryst Raiyn: Useless.........dont bother......instant uninstall
- (2023-06-28) Alvin: 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.
- (2023-06-19) Andrew Nowson: 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....
- (2023-05-25) Paul Salcedo: It works. However, once you open multiple tabs all at once, the whole Chrome freezes up!
- (2023-05-24) Panji Setya Nur Prawira: Not worked today... please fix it Thanks it work again
- (2023-05-24) J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. “Nic” Bentulan: 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!
- (2023-05-24) Masked Guy: 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.
- (2023-05-23) Masked Guy: Stopped working today, please fix. I'll update my rating if it's fixed.
- (2023-05-23) magnetique12: Addon is dead, not working now!
- (2023-05-20) Robert Farmer: Keeps me from having to start my work over as my mouse tends to jump from the scrollbar to the close button lately.
- (2023-04-17) Dmytro Korolkov: 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)
- (2023-03-27) Алексей: Each time you have to turn it on manually!
- (2023-03-24) Uğur Can Hallaçoğlu: I want to use Chrome Close Lock default as ON please change it.
- (2023-03-09) Nicolas Minéo: Works wonderfully.
- (2023-02-20) Nicholas Chowdhury: Does what it's supposed to. It can't do it automatically without interacting with the browser for security reasons. This won't be able to be changed permanently because it would be an exploit that google would immediately fix.
- (2023-02-03) Abdullah Etcibasi: Please change these pictures! They are annoying. And it should be better if it starts to function directly, not to wait until we click on it
- (2022-11-25) Eu coleciono dinossauros: Completely useless. I have to manually click on it when the browser is open so it starts functioning. And also have to keep a tab open for it to work. Good ideal to a real problem, shame it simply was not done right.
- (2022-11-19) Sharza Shakeel: I liked it but I'd love if it starts automatically instead of I have to click on it.
- (2022-11-02) Hali Feri: Does not help as every time I start chrome I have to click on these tabs to enable, why it can be automatically enabled if the tab is there :(
- (2022-08-01) Juan David reyes: Es increíble que un navegador como Chrome no tenga una función tan sencilla como la tiene esta extensión, en cuanto a la extensión es buena y sencilla de usar y un gran alivio para los que somos despistados y cerramos el navegador por error cuando tenemos muchas pestañas abiertas.
- (2022-05-30) Juanma Pinkus: Works as it should, thanks!
- (2022-05-08) Nor Biom: TEN TEN nearly as other guy kazuki says DISABLE blinking and its top boyy maybe also let it just run without a annoying tab lol hate it when i open another WINDOWW.
- (2022-04-05) Malmö Mediakanal: I love it as it works perfectly with my work PC with low RAM :)
- (2022-04-01) Heike Meier: 👍
- (2022-03-10) Leif Å.: It works perfectly for me. Thanks :)
- (2022-02-01) Pablo Rea: If you accidentally close chrome just press ctrl + shift + T
- (2022-01-26) Kazuki Duarte: I love this, it's really helpful. There's only 2 things I don't really like: 1. The images are too low quality, it's really weird. if a better quality image isn't an option i would like an option to choose an image from my computer or from an imgur link. 2. I hate the blinking telling you it's not active, just the triangle would be enough, I find myself locking everytime, even when i dont want to, just so the blinking stops. pls get rid of the blinking or just make so that the "close lock tab" only appear if you click on the app icon on the top right. But it's really useful thanks!
- (2022-01-13) Marty K: Does not work at all: not for tabs and not for the browser.
- (2021-11-03) Liudmyla: It is useless. It does not give the alert, when accidentally closing 1 one tab. This function should be included in Chrome itself. If I fill out a form in Chrome and accidentally close it, I have to start all over. I have to use other browser for that.
- (2021-11-03) meraa kyaa: Does what it says. Click where it tells you to on the screen and a pop up will ask you if you want to close Chrome instead of just closing, which was happening all the time with my sensitive track pad and was just extremely annoying! I love this, thank you devs!
- (2021-10-04) Michal Pyrek: doesnt work
- (2021-08-27) Jayne E: It works! Thank you for this extension! Now I can use Google Chrome without accidentally close my browser and lose all my current session.
- (2021-07-03) Alan Gervin: Love this app. I try to only use keyboard to make myself more proficient on my system, however sometimes when I have to use my mouse I lose place of it and end up accidentally closing my browser playing my music. Major buzz kill. As long as I enable chrome lock on my music window I never have to worry about that happening again. I just wish the lock was enabled by default or there was a way to enable it without clicking it using my keyboard. Hopefully they come up with an update for those two asks or a way to enable it if wanted.
- (2021-05-07) Max: Thank you! Now i can't accidentally close all my Tab
- (2021-04-29) Arthur Carlos: My god I instaled it and a page oppened that looks just like a virus pop up.. It might work but this scares me
- (2020-12-03) Elizabeth Mason: well I don't know what is wrong with this extension, yes it does what it says, but then it also does a lot more like opens numerous more tabs of the extension and then wreaks havoc on the chrome window. I don't know but it opens in every window I open. I have maybe two open and need too. I work on two different google accounts. stop the extension from opening numerous times. please and then maybe we can move the star bar up
- (2020-11-09) Frank Chen: Really useful!
- (2020-08-31) Reita Ray: Good extension
- (2020-08-21) Доширак с Курочкой: Thank you! Now i can't accidentally close my browser!
- (2020-08-04) francesc corral: Is a good extention and it works fine, but now I can not move a tab to my second screen ;-( The "annoying tab icon" shows that you have to click there to really lock your chrome
- (2020-07-11) Rikkert: Simple and only one that works
- (2019-06-01) Paul Tottle: Excellent. Great workaround for the many times I've accidentally pressed Ctrl+Shift+W and exited all Chrome tabs. Thank you!
- (2019-05-16) Filippo Maria Grilli: fantastica, grazie :)
- (2019-05-06) Vũ Thị Thanh Hải: It works quite good but the background is too scary for me :))
Latest issues
- (2023-10-31, v:Ver. 1 - May 23 2023 - Rev. 7) Mrtvy Kenny: starts opening infinite tabs with extension page..
not sure why, but started to open lots of tabs with the extension page.. see screnshot: https://imgur.com/a/B3wZrKh - (2023-06-30, v:Ver. 1 - May 23 2023 - Rev. 7) Allison Griffin: No Longer Working
June 30, 2023 - I've been using your extension for a few months without incident until about a week ago. It now opens a lot (50+) of the "picture pages," at the left where it's pinned and usually crashes Chrome. I lose all my tabs and related history. PLEASE fix you extension. It truly was a life saver!! I loved it!! Thank you!! - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) Garry Ho: Not working!
Not working! - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) magnetique12: Stopped Working
The last update of Google Chrome broke this addon, I tested uninstall, reinstall, reset... no effect. - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) Phillip Cox: Not working
currently not working - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) Safrin Mohamed: Stopped working
Hi team, The extension is has stopped working - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. “Nic” Bentulan: no idea if there was a chrome update but it stopped working for me?
no idea if there was a chrome update but it stopped working for me? - (2023-05-23, v:Ver. 1 - May 20 2023 - Rev. 6) Shatal: stopped working
stopped working after latest chrome update - (2023-03-24, v:Ver. 1 - Jul 11 2021 - Rev. 6) Uğur Can Hallaçoğlu: Doing Chrome Close Lock as Default ON
I want to use this extension without clicking ! button or without clicking the image. I always want to use Chrome Close Lock ON as default. - (2023-03-22, v:Ver. 1 - Jul 11 2021 - Rev. 6) Uğur Can Hallaçoğlu: Making Close Lock On After Closing the window.
I want to use this Chrome Close Lock Always on as default, How can I do it? - (2022-10-29, v:1.2107.11.6) Ernie Jones: Downloaded files won't open
When I click on a jpg file to open that is in my downloads, the chrome lock tab opens instead and blinks the red triangle on the tab. How can I get any of my chromebook downloads to open with chrome close lock enabled?? - (2022-10-19, v:1.2107.11.6) Jose Arkadion: I HAVE A QUESTION
First off, I want to state just how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your extension. It has literally kept a lot of my necessary website explorations from fading off into the sunset, so to speak. Now, as a freelance designer, of sorts :) - I am extremely interested in the images that are used for your Chrome Lock extension. A link to the images that you have available, would be EXTREMELY VALUABLE to me, if you can provide a link to those images. I am not a wealthy man, whatsoever, a musician by trade, and a graphic designer, more by hobby, than actual income availability. BUT, IF I need to pay for those images, I could pay for the best of them. Thank you so very much, JOSE ARKADION PLEASE send the link, if available to " [email protected] " GRACIAS !!!!!!! - (2022-07-14, v:1.2107.11.6) Harsh QuoraHarshEntrepreneur Patel WhiteSafeUser: Chrome close lock
Chrome close lock failed to work several times since years & the guy in the middle not just closed the chrome browser several times but today deleted entire chrome history, let me know what good your extension is for. Quora com profile Harsh-Entrepreneur - (2021-11-12, v:1.2107.11.6) Scott Stamper: POPUP PAGE
can a custom message option be added for the popup? - (2020-07-22, v:Ver. 1 - Jan 20 2018 - Rev. 5) Rob Hull: I love this extension but it's still a bit buggy
It's been a bit buggy when trying to move a tab from one window to another, but as of today I had to disable the extension because it just outright won't let me move tabs between windows anymore - they just pop straight back to where they came. (I've got work to do now, but I can have another play around and submit more details later if necessary.) - (2020-02-04, v:Ver. 1 - Jan 20 2018 - Rev. 5) Ryan Stewart: This bug is still occurring as of 2/4/2020
"BUG: Opens several tabs of this extension tab when moving a tab to a new window When I move a tab to a new window, this extension opens several tabs of its extension tab in the new window (althoug after a short time these duplicates are automatically closed, it is quite annoying and consumes unnecessarily a little time and also temporarily RAM and CPU). Posted by Rainbow Warrior Princess - Dec 15, 2018" - (2018-12-15, v:Ver. 1 - Jan 20 2018 - Rev. 5) Rainbow Warrior Princess: BUG: Opens several tabs of this extension tab when moving a tab to a new window
When I move a tab to a new window, this extension opens several tabs of its extension tab in the new window (althoug after a short time these duplicates are automatically closed, it is quite annoying and consumes unnecessarily a little time and also temporarily RAM and CPU). - (2018-07-31, v:Ver. 1 - Jan 20 2018 - Rev. 5) Red Android: Moving tabs to other windows
Dragging tabs out of current display to a different one will stop you from moving it because of the lock. I see this is already said but last update on this was in jan. - (2018-02-05, v:Ver. 1 - Jan 20 2018 - Rev. 5) Tamar Weinberg: Can't drag tabs out of the current display
Did you know that this plugin FREAKS OUT when I move a tab from one Chrome display to a separate Chrome instance? I had to force kill the plugin. I'd like to use it, but I have to try something else. - (2017-11-30, v:Ver. 1 - Aug 8 2017 - Rev. 1) Jimmy Joe: The enable button is a temporary workaround.
Please make the "enable button" go away and automatically enable Lock on browser launch. Its too bad Google "fixed it" on you but their reason is probably to stop spammers from using pop-ups to prevent you from leaving their site. The best fix would be for Google to build it into Chrome like Firefox did. - (2017-10-29, v:Ver. 1 - Aug 8 2017 - Rev. 1) Shivani Modi: Remove the lock
I want to remove the lock but the tab won't close.