Warns you when you open a URL that's already open in another tab, and lets you jump to the existing tab or close the duplicate.
Users
14
+5 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
6
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#175K
#146K among extensions
Version
1.0.4
updated 3 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:14 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:6 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Tab Twin — Duplicate Tab Detector
Stop drowning in duplicate tabs.
If you keep re-opening pages you already have open — your inbox, a dashboard, a doc, a ticket — Duplicate Tab Guard catches it. The moment a tab
finishes loading a URL that's already open in another tab, a small prompt appears with two choices:
• Navigate to that tab — closes the duplicate and jumps you straight to the tab you already had open.
• Stay here — keeps the new tab and won't ask again for that page.
That's it. No setup, no account, no clutter.
HOW IT WORKS
• Watches for a tab that lands on a URL already open in any of your Chrome windows.
• Shows a clean in-page prompt (not an intrusive browser pop-up).
• One click takes you to the original tab and clears the duplicate.
SMART MATCHING
• Matches URLs exactly, so different pages on the same site are never confused.
• Ignores a trailing slash, so "example.com/page" and "example.com/page/" count as the same page.
• Treats different query parameters or #sections as different pages — because they usually are.
• Works across all your open Chrome windows.
PRIVACY FIRST
• No accounts. No tracking. No analytics.
• Makes zero network requests and sends nothing off your device.
• Reads open tab URLs only on your own machine, purely to detect duplicates.
Lightweight, quiet, and out of your way until you actually need it.