Clean Tabs

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You have 217 tabs across 4 Chrome windows. Most are duplicates. One click. Now you have 38 tabs in one tidy window, grouped by site.

  Tab Vacuum is the simplest, fastest, and most private way to remove duplicate tabs in Chrome — no accounts, no settings, no cloud sync, no upsell. Just click the icon. Done.

  ⚡ WHAT IT DOES (in one click)
  ✓ Removes EVERY duplicate tab across ALL your open Chrome windows (matched by URL)
  ✓ Merges surviving tabs into a single window
  ✓ Auto-groups remaining tabs by website hostname (collapsed for a clean tab bar)
  ✓ Runs in under a second, even with 200+ tabs

  🎯 HOW IT'S DIFFERENT FROM ONETAB / WORKONA / TOBY
  • OneTab saves tabs to a list — Tab Vacuum tidies them in place.
  • Workona syncs to the cloud — Tab Vacuum runs 100% locally.
  • Toby is a visual board — Tab Vacuum is one click.
  • You don't need an account, a subscription, or a tutorial.

  🔒 PRIVACY (the short version — full policy on GitHub)
  • No analytics. No telemetry. No crash reporting.
  • No accounts, no sync, no cloud — there isn't even a server.
  • Reads tab URLs ONLY when you click the icon, ONLY on your device.
  • 2 permissions: "tabs" and "tabGroups" — minimum required, nothing else.

  🪶 OPEN SOURCE — 50 LINES OF CODE
  The whole extension is ~50 lines of vanilla JavaScript. Audit every line on GitHub before you install:
  github.com/mayhsundar/tab-vacuum

  ⭐ FREE FOREVER
  No ads. No premium tier. No upsell. MIT licensed.

  WHO INSTALLS IT
  - Developers buried under Stack Overflow + GitHub + MDN tabs
  - Researchers with overlapping tabs across windows
  - Anyone whose Chrome is using 16 GB of RAM
  - People who tried OneTab, Workona, or Toby and just wanted the boring thing

  QUICK START
  1. Click "Add to Chrome"
  2. Pin Tab Vacuum to your toolbar
  3. Click the icon whenever your tabs get out of hand
  4. Repeat (it never gets old)

  LINKS
  Homepage: https://mayhsundar.github.io/tab-vacuum
  Source code: https://github.com/mayhsundar/tab-vacuum
  Privacy policy: https://github.com/mayhsundar/tab-vacuum/blob/main/PRIVACY.md