As im figuring out this new great tool i noticed one thing I'm not sure i like. Ofcourse i fin the suppress method great and already helps me limiting and make better judgment of working with tabs.

But my issue is when i see a notification of say Youtube or twitter. WHen the window is suppressed, i don't get to view that notification. Thus by doing so i need to do more steps to see that notification again.

Perhaps if it could store or list suppressed windows so we could always try opening them later when you did close other tabs.

This is a great extension, but I have a suggestion.
You can bypass the tab limit by opening a new window. You should consider the number of tabs across all windows, or at least include an option to switch to that behaviour. Otherwise, it is of little use to a lot of us :)
All the best!

I have to maintain a separate extension that automatically stops me from having the same tab open twice. Would be a great addition to this wonderful app

Firefox now supports Webextensions and I was able to run xtab as an addon without any modifications to the source. It will be great to have it in released in the official addons repository.

I found it a little bit annoying when I tried to open a new link then its not opened, so I need to figure it out for a while then I remember I have xTab.

Can you please consider to add an option to display a little notification when it blocking new tab.

Thanks,
Ibnuh

By installing this extension, you closed 10s of my tabs without warning me. You should have an "Undo" option as I've lost a lot of work!

I've already got 6 windows opened 😂

I started to use the extension today and I got some thoughts about how I would personally improve its functionalities.
Here are some feature suggestions:

• allow to disable block/extension; or allow to specify 0/null as value to disable the functionality (now everything lower than 1 is just working the same)

• allow per-window setting, and an option to switch the functionality from global to per-window (maybe allow to specify a global max number of tabs regardless of what window they are located)

• add setting to not close audio and/or pinned tabs

• add notification/reminder of blocked tabs (for when opening links from outside the browser and the tab gets shut down)

• allow to replace/load a tab (least accessed/used/etc) instead of closing it (so one can use history to recover the previous content)

• ensure the extension works with other famous ones (e.g. restoring tabs from OneTab, without loosing tabs in case the restored ones are more than the xtab limit)

I still have to check the repository code, but could be that if I get time then I will implement some of them and create pull requests.
This issue is more a reminder than a request.

Version 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) on macos Mojave
xTab v1.0.0

I cannot find the defaults for number of open tabs pls advise

That way when I try to reopen last closed tab, I won't be redirected to the useless "Tab blocked" page, which really renders the extension unusable.

Thanks.

Music tab should not be closed no matter what.

Even though in newer versions of chrome you can see a speaker icon near the tab that is making music i couldn't find any call to check this behavior per tab. Maybe we can take the decision based on the links (don't close pandora/youtube links?)

The new one opens the tab and closes it only after a few seconds.

When I'm opening 3/4 links I now don't realise which were not opened.

In the new version, there are no options - as far as I can see

Is it possible to reuse old tab when I hit limit and open new link in that tab, with ability to "go back"?
Old versions of Safari/iOS with tab limit have this behavior.

Hi,
First of all, thanks for your great extension.
I would like to use it on a Windows terminal server for the users in my organization using Group Policy as a forced-installed app.
However, after the extension is installed I would like also to force some specific settings (e.g. max number of tabs to 5) and prevent the users from changing it.
Is the above possible with xtab? I appreciate your help!.
Regards,

I would like to ask for a request to add a feature that locks down the settings for a given timeframe. Its of course up to the user to comply or not comply with this settings now. But basically i want to limit myself with opening tabs. Im going crazy all the time and keep them open. I end up with 20-30 tabs all the time, slowly eating memory.

My idea basically allows a user to set the limit for a certain time and can not be bypassed in any case nor can it be changed. Its quite a hardcore one, but i think i need it :(

For example, I don't need 3 tabs of the same page of documentation.
Detect and suggest closure of duplicate tabs.