

These security fixes are very important as they ensure protection from online security threats. In other words, if you’re on Chrome 78 stable, you’ll be able to dismiss all your open tabs except for the current one you are viewing simply by right-clicking on a tab.Īpart from that, Google also added five security fixes in the Chrome 78 stable update. This feature is now available to everyone running the Chrome. Now, Google has added the “Close other tabs” option in the right-click menu of Chrome 78 stable update too. The feature was recently pulled by Google, but the company later brought it back in the Chrome Canary channel on users’ requests. It’s a fairly simple process - all you need to do is right-click on the tab and then click on the “Close other tabs” option in the right-click menu. The manual way gives you greater control, but it may also leave tabs open longer than you may want them to be.“Close other tabs” is a feature in Chrome that lets you dismiss all your open tabs except for the current one you are viewing. Ultimately, it is just an automated way of closing tabs in Chrome, something that you can do manually as well.

Maybe when you do some research in Chrome but don't need the sites you found later on (you could bookmark those of importance). I can see it being useful in some situations though. Most Internet users will probably have little use for it. Tab Auto Close is a specialized extension. The extension requires permissions to read your browsing history. The source code of Tab Auto Close is listed on GitHub.
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This gives you sufficient time to stop the process. Instead of blacklisting sites, you could pause execution for some time to prevent the automatic closing of tabs in Chrome.Ī 2-minute notification is displayed when tabs are about to be closed in the browser by the extension.

The last option displayed in the menu is a pause and resume toggle.
