TabLoop

About

Hard Limit your open tabs. Break the tab hoarding habit. Keep your memory usage low and computer speed high.

Why TabLoop?
We all do it: we open a tab intending to read it "later," and leave it open. Fast forward, your memory is low and your machine is clogged down with tabs that's difficult to go through. Even with a high-spec computer, performance slows to a crawl. You might even find yourself opening a completely different browser app to escape the clutter, ending up juggling multiple browsers and scattering your focus. Traditional tab suspenders just hide the problem by putting the tabs to sleep.

TabLoop takes an uncompromising, minimalist approach to browser hygiene. By enforcing a hard limit on how many tabs you can have open at once, TabLoop stops the hoarding behavior at the source. Once you hit your limit, opening a new tab means your oldest tab must go: "one in, one out".

How it Works
Set a limit you prefer (e.g., 20 tabs). When you try to open the 21st tab, TabLoop "loops back" and re-surfaces an old tab instead, forcing you to deal with it. Want to keep that one? Open a new tab again, and another old tab gets re-surfaced.

Features

- 🛑 Strict Tab Limits: Set a maximum cap on your open tabs. Choose whether the limit applies globally across the entire browser, or individually per-window.
- ♻️ Automated Tab Re-surfacing: Once you hit the limit, TabLoop re-surfaces an old tab.
- ⏱️ Customizable Surfacing Logic: Choose which tab gets sacrificed first:
  - Least Recently Used (LRU): Closes the tab you haven't looked at in the longest time.
  - Oldest by Creation: Closes the tab that has been open the longest, regardless of when you last viewed it.
- ❄️ Resurfacing Cooldown: Avoid cycling through the same tabs repeatedly. If a tab was activated within a configurable time frame (in minutes), it is automatically skipped when finding the oldest tab to close.
- 👀 Upcoming Queue: See the list of your most stale tabs right in the popup. Jump straight to them, or close them on the spot to free up slots.

- 🚀 Escape Hatch: You're at the limit, but desperately need to open a tab. TabLoop has an Escape Hatch that lets you exceed the limit with a bit of a hoop to jump through.
- 🗃️ The Stash: Another way to make space - park any open tab in your Stash and it closes to free a slot. Restore it later from the popup, on any device you're signed into.
- ☁️ Cloud Sync: Your settings, domain lists, and Stashed tabs sync across all your signed-in browsers. On by default - you can turn it off in the settings page.

- 🛡️ Pinned Tabs: Choose to completely exclude Pinned tabs from your limit calculations.
- 🎯 Prioritize Domains to Re-surface: Want to aggressively close specific time-wasting sites? Add domains (like reddit.com or facebook.com) to your Priority list, and TabLoop will bring them back first.
- ⏸️ Domains to skip Re-surfacing: Protect crucial sites. Add domains (like youtube.com) to your Skip list, and TabLoop will bypass them when re-surfacing.