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Creates a New Tab when you are at your last tab to prevent the window from closing.

Latest Version

Version

0.95

Update

April 4, 2021

Size

5.25KiB

Developer

blandlifedev.blogspot.com

SimpleLastTab Extension

A lightweight extension that prevents Chrome from closing when the last tab is closed.

It uses the naive and very simple method of opening a new tab when there is only one tab left.
Another way to look at it is that it try to ensure that there are at least 2 tabs.

Features event page to ensure that it unloads when not needed.
No options and nothing flashy to warrant a screenshot :P
Making this extension as simple as possible.

Decided to make this as Chrome Toolbox doesn't work anymore on recent Chrome versions.

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CHANGELOG:

0.95 [04/04/2021]
- remove 'tabs' permission as its not necessary

0.94 [31/05/2014]
- set the active tab back to the first tab
- remove use of deprecated property

0.93 [22/04/2014]
- changed a deprecated api call
- hopefully fix unclosable main Chrome window if theres a Chrome app loaded as a separate window

0.92 [22/12/12]
- changed the delay method of the timer

0.91 [28/11/12]
- added a delay to the tab creation method

0.90 [26/11/12]\t
- first version

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KNOWN BUG (probably fixed):

As the function that creates the new tab locks for about 1 second to alleviate the problem of multiple new tabs opening on operations like using 'close tabs to the right' on a large number of tabs:

- there may be times where the new tab does not show up (e.g fast closing of tab, faster than 1 second when the function is still locked) or

- there may be times when more than one new tabs show up (e.g using 'close tabs to the right' on a large number of tabs, slower than 1 second thus triggering the function again).

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "SimpleLastTab", "version": "0.95", "manifest_version": 2, "description": "Creates a New Tab when you are at your last tab to prevent the window from closing.", "icons": {\t\t"16": "icon-16.png",\t\t"48": "icon-48.png",\t\t"128": "icon-128.png" }, "background": { "scripts": ["bg.js"],\t "persistent": false }, "permissions": [ "alarms" ]}

Download CRX(5.25KiB)

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User reviews

Denis Koshelev (ID: 00000024164ae443) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/20/2022 Отличное расширение, работает как надо!

chase carter (ID: 0000009844bf15c6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/06/2022 👍

Luca (ID: 0000007afa3e9d79) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/17/2022 Works fine, could you post the code on GitHub? I would like to create such an extension :)

Newtomic (ID: 0000003dbe01bca0) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 09/16/2021 I'm sorry but this Extension doesn't do what it says "Creates a New Tab when you are at your last tab to prevent the window from closing.", instead it maintains 2 tabs open in any window at all times, it's just a bad workaround/hack to the problem, not a real solution.

Mojtaba Vahdati (ID: 0000005458f4028f) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 12/04/2020 It keeps "two" new tabs open and it's annoying. I expected only "one' tab to remain open when I didn't need any tabs.

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SimpleLastTab