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Description
# QuIt Tabs – Automatically Close Inactive Tabs
**Every tab gets a countdown. Tabs you don’t return to are closed.**
QuIt Tabs is a browser extension focused on automatically **quitting inactive tabs**.
Each tab starts a countdown when it becomes inactive. If the timer expires before you return, the tab is closed.
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## 🚀 How QuIt Tabs Works
* **Universal Countdown**
Every background tab receives an inactivity countdown.
* **Per-Domain Time Customization**
You can assign different countdown durations for specific websites
(for example: news sites close faster, documentation sites stay open longer).
* **Clear and Predictable Behavior**
No conditional rules or automation logic.
Tabs are closed only when their countdown reaches zero.
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## 🛡 Tab Protection
* **Active Tab Protection** – The tab you are currently viewing is never closed.
* **Media Protection** – Tabs playing audio or video remain open.
* **Pinned Tab Protection** – Pinned tabs are excluded from countdown.
* **Manual Protection** – Protect any tab with a single click.
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## ⏱ Visual Countdown
See exactly how much time remains before a tab is closed, directly in the extension popup.
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## 🪟 Single Window Mode
When enabled, tabs in unfocused windows continue counting down, ensuring only tabs you are actively using stay open.
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## 🧹 Quick Quit Tools
* **Quit All** – Close all countdown tabs at once (protected tabs are respected).
* **Merge Duplicates** – Close duplicate URLs with a single action.
* **Batch Actions** – Quit, protect, or unprotect multiple tabs instantly.
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## 📊 Quit Insights (Local Only)
QuIt Tabs provides simple statistics **only for tabs it has closed itself**, including:
* Total number of tabs closed
* Reasons for closure (inactivity, manual quit)
* Most frequently closed websites
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## 🕘 Quit History (Extension-Only)
QuIt Tabs keeps a local history of **tabs closed by QuIt Tabs**, not browser history.
Each entry includes:
* Tab URL
* Time of closure
* Reason for closure
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## 🛠 Settings
* **Default Countdown Duration** – Set the global inactivity timer.
* **Per-Domain Countdown** – Override the timer for specific websites.
* **Special Pages** – Choose whether internal pages can be closed.
* **Window Focus Behavior** – Control how unfocused windows are treated.
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## 🔐 Privacy
* Does not read page content.
* Does not access browser browsing history.
* Does not track users across websites.
* All data is stored locally in the browser.
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## 🔍 Permissions
* `tabs` & `tabGroups` – Required to track tab state and close tabs.
* `storage` – Stores settings, quit history, and counters.
* `alarms` – Runs inactivity countdowns.
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**Open Source**
https://github.com/moseiei132/QuIt-Tabs
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Permissions
alarmsℹ Can schedule periodic background tasks sidePanel storageℹ Can store data locally in your browser tabGroupsℹ Can organize tabs into groups tabsℹ Can see your open tabs and their URLs
Details
| Version | 1.4.3 |
| Updated | Mar 21, 2026 |
| Size | 289KiB |
| First Seen | Mar 24, 2026 |
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