How Tab Wrangler clears out the tabs you forgot
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You open a bunch of tabs, then forget about some of them.
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Tabs you haven't visited in a while go stale.
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Tab Wrangler closes the stale tabs and saves them to the Tab Corral.
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You're left with the tabs you actually use, and you likely won't miss the rest.
Nothing gets lost
Every tab Tab Wrangler closes goes to the Tab Corral. Search by page title or address, sort by when tabs closed or which site they came from, and restore one tab or a whole handful at once. Changed your mind? Undo.
Tabs marked with come back with their back-button history and scroll position. Your browser keeps that for the last 25 tabs closed.
You decide what stays open
Tab Rules are checked from top to bottom, and the first one that fits a tab decides what happens to it. Match on a tab's address, title, or tab group name, or on whether it's pinned or playing audio. Then lock it, or give it a time limit of its own.
Out of the box, pinned tabs and tabs playing audio stay open, and all other tabs get closed after 1 hour of inactivity.
Tab Rules
Add ruleRules are checked top to bottom. Tabs are only handled by the first rule they match.
calendar
THEN
Lock tab
Trip
THEN
Stale after 3 days
1 hour
Only on the clock
Choose the days and hours Tab Wrangler runs. Outside them every timer stops, so a weekend away doesn't cost you the tabs you left open on Friday.
Active Hours
Tab timers count down and tabs are auto-closed only during these hours.
And the little things
Lock a tab, or a whole window
Locked tabs stay open no matter how long they sit. Lock a window and every tab in it stays too, including ones you open later.
See what's next to go
The popup shows how long each open tab has left.
Keep a few around
Nothing closes until a window has more than 20 tabs. Pick your own number, or count across all windows.
Pause any time
Stop every timer with one click. Timers can also stop on their own while you're away from the computer.
Wrangle now
Don't feel like waiting? Close the oldest stale tabs right away.
Right-click a page
From Tab Wrangler's right-click context menu, close that page, never close it, or never close anything on that site, all without opening the popup.
Your settings, everywhere
Settings sync through your browser account. Export a backup file and restore it on any computer.
It doesn't look inside your tabs
Tab Wrangler reads each tab's title and address so it can show them to you and match your rules. It can't read what's on the page, and nothing about you or your browsing is sent anywhere.
- No tracking
- No analytics
- No ads
It's free and open source under the GPLv3 License, built in the open on GitHub, and translated in part by volunteers on Crowdin.
Give your tabs some room.
Install Tab Wrangler and keep only the tabs you actually use. The ones you forgot about will clear themselves out.