I suffer from tab abuse, namely overuse thereof. Many of my tabs are SE-related,
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Question
I suffer from tab abuse, namely overuse thereof. Many of my tabs are SE-related, and I tend to end up with two or more tabs pointing to the same page. This contributes to the clutter in my tab bar - I try to kill tabs when I don't need them anymore, but that doesn't always happen.
Thenceforth, I would like to have a Chrome extension that would:
Automatically detect tabs pointing to the same URL
Do something to the page or the title, like
Prefix the both tab titles with '[dupe]', or
Change the tab favicon, or
Do something else ingenious like have a dedicated page to keep track of these tabs
Allow me to say, "no, that's not a duplicate".
Continually check for these duplicates; I don't want to have to push a button to perform the check.
Is there an extension that does this?
Explanation / Answer
I think despite its terrible name, Tab Dupectomy should work for you. It's a lot simpler than what you described:
Detection of duplicate is automated
It doesn't edit the page header, but instead just keeps track of the number of duplicate. A feature that does this is in preparation (see here
Just click on the icon displaying the number to close all duplicates.
It sometime fails, like in the case of the google homepage, because it checks for url, and url only.