A Manifest V3 extension to help reduce tab overload.
- Tracks how long web tabs stay open.
- Sends a warning notification when tabs exceed
warningMinutes. - Auto-closes tabs after
closeMinutes, except domains in yourexceptionDomainslist. - Saves auto-closed tabs locally and shows a report grouped by day.
- Open Chrome and go to
chrome://extensions. - Enable Developer mode.
- Click Load unpacked.
- Select this folder:
- Select the folder where you cloned/downloaded this repository
- Open extension Settings (Options page).
- Set:
- Warn after minutes
- Auto-close after minutes
- Sweep interval in seconds
- Add exception domains that should never be auto-closed.
- Click Save Settings.
- Warn after:
1minute - Auto-close after:
5minutes (non-exception domains) - Sweep interval:
30seconds
- Open from popup (
Saved Tabs) or directly:chrome-extension://<your-extension-id>/saved.html
- The report is grouped by day with daily tab counts.
- 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
httpandhttpstabs are tracked.