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Tab Sweeper (Chrome Extension)

A Manifest V3 extension to help reduce tab overload.

Features

  • Tracks how long web tabs stay open.
  • Sends a warning notification when tabs exceed warningMinutes.
  • Auto-closes tabs after closeMinutes, except domains in your exceptionDomains list.
  • Saves auto-closed tabs locally and shows a report grouped by day.

Install (unpacked)

  1. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
  2. Enable Developer mode.
  3. Click Load unpacked.
  4. Select this folder:
    • Select the folder where you cloned/downloaded this repository

Configure

  1. Open extension Settings (Options page).
  2. Set:
    • Warn after minutes
    • Auto-close after minutes
    • Sweep interval in seconds
  3. Add exception domains that should never be auto-closed.
  4. Click Save Settings.

Test defaults

  • Warn after: 1 minute
  • Auto-close after: 5 minutes (non-exception domains)
  • Sweep interval: 30 seconds

Closed tabs report

  • Open from popup (Saved Tabs) or directly:
    • chrome-extension://<your-extension-id>/saved.html
  • The report is grouped by day with daily tab counts.

Notes

  • Data is stored in chrome.storage.local.
  • Existing tabs are tracked from the time the extension starts, and restored tabs keep their timers across browser restarts after metadata has been saved.
  • Only http and https tabs are tracked.

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Chrome extension to auto-close stale tabs and track closed tab history

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