Auto Close Inactive Tabs

Automatically closes inactive tabs based on customizable URL rules and time intervals

Auto Close Inactive Tabs - Smart Tab Manager & Memory Saver Are you tired of having dozens of browser tabs open, slowing down your computer and making it impossible to find what you need? Auto Close Inactive Tabs is the ultimate tab management solution for Chrome that automatically closes tabs you haven't used in a while, keeping your browser fast, organized, and your computer running smoothly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 WHY YOU NEED THIS EXTENSION Every open tab consumes memory (RAM) and CPU resources. With just 20-30 tabs open, Chrome can easily use several gigabytes of RAM, causing: • Slow browser performance • System lag and freezing • Reduced battery life on laptops • Difficulty finding important tabs • Cluttered browsing experience Auto Close Inactive Tabs solves all these problems by intelligently monitoring your tabs and closing the ones you're not using, based on your customizable rules. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 【Automatic Tab Closing】 Set it and forget it! The extension monitors all your tabs and automatically closes those that have been inactive for your specified time period. Choose from preset intervals (30 seconds to 24 hours) or create custom time intervals to match your workflow perfectly. 【URL-Based Rules】 Not all websites are equal. Create specific rules for different websites: • Close social media tabs after 5 minutes of inactivity • Keep work-related tabs open for 2 hours • Set different timeouts for news sites, shopping sites, and more • Use wildcard patterns to match multiple URLs at once 【Smart Pattern Matching】 Our powerful pattern matching system supports: • Glob patterns: https://.google.com/ matches all Google services • Regular expressions for advanced users • Wildcard matching for domains and paths • First-match-wins rule priority system 【Drag-and-Drop Rule Management】 Easily organize your rules by dragging and dropping them into the order you want. Rules are evaluated from top to bottom, so you have complete control over which rules take priority. 【Tab Protection】 Have an important tab you don't want closed? Simply protect it with one click! Protected tabs are never closed automatically, even if they match a rule. Protection persists for your entire browsing session. 【Real-Time Countdown】 See exactly how much time each tab has before it will be closed. The popup shows a live countdown for every tracked tab, so you always know what's happening. 【Global Settings】 Fine-tune the extension behavior: • Exclude pinned tabs from auto-closing • Exclude tabs playing audio or video • Enable/disable the extension with one click • System tabs (chrome://, settings, etc.) are always protected 【Import/Export】 Backup your rules and settings to a JSON file. Share your configuration with colleagues or restore it when setting up a new computer. Never lose your carefully crafted rules again. 【43 Languages Supported】 Use the extension in your native language! We support: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and 30+ more languages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR 【Remote Workers & Professionals】 Keep your browser organized during long work sessions. Set longer timeouts for work tools like Google Docs, Slack, and project management apps, while quickly closing distracting social media tabs. 【Researchers & Students】 Open dozens of tabs while researching without worrying about browser slowdown. The extension will clean up tabs you're no longer actively using while keeping your important research accessible. 【Developers & Designers】 Manage documentation tabs, Stack Overflow pages, and design resources efficiently. Create rules for localhost URLs, development servers, and testing environments. 【Casual Browsers】 Simply set a default timeout for all sites and enjoy a clutter-free browsing experience without having to manually close tabs. 【Anyone with Limited RAM】 If your computer has 4GB or 8GB of RAM, tab management is crucial. This extension helps you make the most of your system resources. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 HOW IT WORKS 1️⃣ Install the extension and it starts working immediately with sensible defaults 2️⃣ Click the extension icon to see all your open tabs and their countdown timers 3️⃣ Open the options page to create custom rules for specific websites 4️⃣ Drag and drop rules to set their priority (first match wins) 5️⃣ Protect important tabs with one click to prevent them from closing 6️⃣ Enjoy a faster, more organized browsing experience! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIME INTERVAL OPTIONS Choose the perfect timeout for your needs: • 30 seconds - For tabs you want closed almost immediately • 1 minute - Quick cleanup for temporary tabs • 5 minutes - Short browsing sessions • 15 minutes - Standard browsing • 30 minutes - Default setting, good for most users • 1 hour - Keep tabs around for a while • 2 hours - Extended work sessions • 6 hours - Half-day timeout • 12 hours - Keep important tabs all day • 24 hours - Daily cleanup • Custom - Set any interval you want (e.g., 45 seconds, 90 minutes) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 ADVANCED URL PATTERNS Create powerful rules with our pattern matching system: 【Glob Patterns (Easy)】 • https://.facebook.com/ - All Facebook pages • ://twitter.com/ - Twitter on HTTP or HTTPS • https://github.com/*/* - GitHub repository pages • ://.amazon.* - All Amazon domains worldwide 【Regular Expressions (Advanced)】 • ^https://(www.)?youtube.com/watch - YouTube video pages • .*.(pdf|doc|docx)$ - Document URLs • ^https://mail.google.com - Gmail only 【Pattern Tips】 • Use * to match any characters (except /) • Use ** to match any characters (including /) • Use ? to match a single character • Toggle "Regex" for full regular expression support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & SECURITY Your privacy is our top priority: ✓ NO data collection - We don't collect any browsing data ✓ NO external servers - Everything runs locally in your browser ✓ NO tracking - We don't track your browsing history ✓ NO ads - Clean, ad-free experience ✓ Open permissions - We only request the minimum permissions needed: • tabs - To monitor and close tabs • storage - To save your settings locally • alarms - To check tabs periodically All your rules and settings are stored locally on your computer using Chrome's built-in storage. Nothing is ever sent to external servers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 TIPS & BEST PRACTICES 【Start with the Default Rule】 The extension comes with a default rule that closes all tabs after 30 minutes of inactivity. This is a great starting point for most users. 【Create Specific Rules First】 Add rules for websites you use frequently before the catch-all rule. Remember, rules are evaluated from top to bottom! 【Use Pinned Tabs for Important Sites】 Pin your most important tabs (right-click → Pin tab) and enable "Exclude pinned tabs" in settings. These tabs will never be closed. 【Protect Tabs Temporarily】 Working on something important? Click the shield icon in the popup to protect that tab for your current session. 【Export Your Rules】 Once you have your rules set up perfectly, export them as a backup. You can import them later or share with colleagues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 EXAMPLE RULE CONFIGURATIONS 【Productivity Setup】 Social media (5 min): https://.facebook.com/, https://.twitter.com/, https://.instagram.com/ News sites (15 min): https://.cnn.com/, https://.bbc.com/ Work tools (2 hours): https://.slack.com/, https://.notion.so/ All other sites (30 min): :///* 【Developer Setup】 Documentation (1 hour): https://developer.mozilla.org/, https://docs.python.org/ Stack Overflow (30 min): https://stackoverflow.com/* Localhost (never): Protect or exclude ://localhost: All other sites (15 min): :///* 【Student Setup】 Learning platforms (2 hours): https://.coursera.org/, https://.udemy.com/ Research (1 hour): https://scholar.google.com/, https://.wikipedia.org/* Distractions (5 min): https://.youtube.com/, https://.reddit.com/ All other sites (30 min): :///* ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔄 RECENT UPDATES Version 1.0 - Initial Release • Automatic tab closing based on inactivity • URL-based rules with glob and regex support • Drag-and-drop rule reordering • Per-tab protection • Exclude pinned and audible tabs • Import/export functionality • Support for 43 languages • Real-time countdown display • Modern, clean user interface ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Will this close tabs I'm actively using? A: No! The extension only closes tabs that have been inactive (not viewed) for the specified time period. Your currently active tab is always protected. Q: What happens to pinned tabs? A: By default, pinned tabs are excluded from auto-closing. You can change this in the settings if needed. Q: Can I recover a closed tab? A: Yes! Use Chrome's built-in feature: Press Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) to reopen recently closed tabs. Q: Does this work with Chrome profiles? A: Yes! Each Chrome profile has its own independent settings and rules. Q: What's the minimum time interval? A: 30 seconds is the minimum interval due to Chrome's technical limitations. Q: Will tabs playing music or video be closed? A: By default, no. Tabs playing audio are protected. You can change this in settings. Q: Does this extension work offline? A: Yes! The extension works entirely offline - no internet connection required. Q: How do I temporarily disable the extension? A: Click the extension icon and toggle the enable/disable switch, or right-click the icon and select "Disable." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 SUPPORTED LANGUAGES Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • Chrome version 121 or higher • Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS • Minimal resource usage • No additional software required ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ JOIN THOUSANDS OF USERS Auto Close Inactive Tabs helps you: ✓ Save memory and improve browser performance ✓ Keep your tabs organized automatically ✓ Focus on what matters without distractions ✓ Extend battery life on laptops ✓ Reduce visual clutter in your browser Download now and experience a cleaner, faster Chrome browser! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📧 SUPPORT & FEEDBACK We love hearing from our users! If you have questions, suggestions, or need help: • Leave a review with your feedback • Report issues through the support section • Suggest new features you'd like to see Thank you for choosing Auto Close Inactive Tabs!