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Shameless plug, I actually built a little Chrome extension (works in latest Brave too last I checked) that aims to help you manage your tab growth.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prune/gblddboefgbl...

It keeps track of the last time you looked at a tab, and depending how you set it up can either group tabs into a collapsed group, or close them automatically once they reach a set threshold. It also stops you from opening duplicates, focusing originals instead (based on exact URI match).

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Thank you. Feature request: “after X days, add it to Pinboard and close” (or at least, a special bookmarks folder)

Sounds like it could be useful, I'll try my best to get around to working on it!

For any other feature requests, the project is on GitHub so just create a quick issue here: https://github.com/tbrockman/prune/issues/new?assignees=&lab...

Thanks. Here you go: https://github.com/tbrockman/prune/issues/4

I would love something like this, but for Firefox. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I'd also be curious about the auto grouping.

I'm currently using Auto Tab Discard, which has a "Permanently delete (remove) old discarded tabs if they are inactive for (in hours)" and I'm manually grouping things with Panorama View. I don't know if it's built in to Firefox or one of the addons, but I've noticed it will already suggest an existing tab when I type the name/site in to the address bar.

I'm a fan of tree-style tabs for firefox. Child descendants can be collapsed and you can re-arrange the hierarchy as you open/close tabs.

It's a little finicky with drag/drop but is very powerful.

Edge has vertical tabs which is space saving but lacks a hierarchy which is important to me.

Yeah, originally it did work on Firefox, but since migrating to manifest v3 and adding the tab grouping feature (API not available in Firefox), it is unfortunately no longer compatible. If I can in the future I'll definitely try to make something available for Firefox users.

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