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What is the best Chrome extension for managing too many tabs?

By YPB Team

Some of these quietly park what you cannot close; others want every tab filed into a project first. Thirteen answers to the same forty-tab afternoon.

  1. Tab Black Hole — ranked #11
    Tab Black Hole
    Sets a tab limit for each window and slides everything above it into one group at the end of the tab strip, where nothing closes on its own. The rare limiter that parks your overflow instead of blocking new tabs or killing old ones, so the pile stays one click away. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-black-hole/kdjljmhpekmmmipeffindanjbblgpngo
    1000pts
  2. The Marvellous Suspender — ranked #22
    The Marvellous Suspender
    Suspends inactive tabs to free memory while keeping the page title, a community-maintained successor to The Great Suspender.
    690pts
  3. OneTab — ranked #33
    OneTab
    Collapses every open tab into a single list page with one click, then restores them one at a time or all at once.
    658pts
  4. Tab Manager Plus — ranked #44
    Tab Manager Plus
    Shows every open window and tab as a searchable grid, with duplicate detection and quick renaming of windows.
    614pts
  5. Tabli — ranked #55
    Tabli
    A keyboard-driven popup that lists and searches every window and tab, built for switching fast rather than storing anything.
    598pts
  6. xTab — ranked #66
    xTab
    Enforces a hard cap on open tabs and closes the least recently used one when you go over, or blocks the new tab outright.
    575pts
  7. Tab Wrangler — ranked #77
    Tab Wrangler
    Automatically closes tabs you have not touched for a set time and keeps them in a recoverable list it calls the Tab Corral.
    575pts
  8. Tab Session Manager — ranked #88
    Tab Session Manager
    Saves windows and tabs as sessions on a schedule, with cloud sync and export for people who reopen the same set every morning.
    465pts
  9. Toby — ranked #99
    Toby
    Replaces the new tab page with a board of saved collections, so a set of tabs becomes a named group you reopen later.
    436pts
  10. Workona — ranked #1010
    Workona
    Organizes tabs into per-project workspaces that sync across devices, aimed at people juggling several clients or courses at once.
    409pts
  11. Auto Tab Discard — ranked #1111
    Auto Tab Discard
    Discards inactive tabs to cut memory use while leaving them in the tab strip, with per-site rules for what never gets discarded.
    374pts
  12. Quick Tabs — ranked #1212
    Quick Tabs
    Lists open tabs in most-recently-used order and jumps to any of them from the keyboard, no mouse involved.
    237pts
  13. Session Buddy — ranked #1313
    Session Buddy
    Saves and restores whole windows as named sessions, with auto-backup so a crash does not take your tabs with it.
    237pts

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Comments

Tab Black Hole of course