Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.

Latest Version

Version

5.0

Update

January 7, 2024

Size

17.5KiB

Developer

Keep One Pinned Tab Extension

Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.
This extension prevents Chrome from closing when you close the final tab in a window. It keeps one pinned, blank tab always open as the first tab in your tab bar, and reopens it if it is closed.

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Inspired by \"Live On\":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-on/oficfgdfeoknbjfhommlpiekdapmnebh/

Icons by Everaldo Coelho:
http://www.everaldo.com/

Project released open-source, Github project available:
https://github.com/theborg3of5/KeepOnePinnedTab

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Please note that this was made for personal use, so replies and fixes may be delayed.

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Changelog:
1.0: Initial Release.
1.1: Bugfix: now takes into account whether the window is a popup vs. normal, and allows selection of special tab to aid in easier ctrl+tabbing.
1.2: Broke main functionality with last update, now fixed.
1.3: Extending closing functionality to second, semi-special tab.
2.0: Back from hiatus! Fixed the issue where a new pinned tab would appear upon every startup for some users, and moved the close-extra-new-tabs functionality out to a new extension, called \"Close Extra New Tabs\" (see other apps by this developer).
3.0: Added an options page! You can now set what URL you want the pinned tab to have, rather than it always being your new tab page. Defaults to new tab page if you don't set it.
3.1: Fixed an issue where the extension would open tabs forever, sorry folks!
3.2: Took out a console.log() that was left in (no functional impact).
4.0: Major update! Changes:
- Built-in options for pages to pin.
- Option: no focus special pinned tab.
- Squashed all known bugs.
4.1: A few small bugfixes:
- Don't open two new tabs (+ pinned one) when opening a new window.
- Work correctly in incognito mode.
4.2: Fix issue where we keep opening new pinned tabs when Chrome is allowed to stay open in the background
5.0: Complete rewrite and upgrade to manifest v3!
- Fixes the \"never focus pinned tab\" setting.
- Cleans up the settings page (and changes how we store settings behind the scenes).

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",\t"name": "Keep One Pinned Tab",\t"version": "5.0",\t"description": "Keep one (optionally unfocusable) per window pinned tab open at all times. Prevents Chrome windows from closing with last tab.",\t"manifest_version": 3,\t"permissions": [\t\t"tabs",\t\t"tabGroups",\t\t"storage",\t\t"alarms"\t],\t"icons": {\t\t"128": "icon128.png"\t},\t"background": {\t\t"service_worker": "service_worker.js"\t},\t"incognito": "split",\t"options_ui": {\t\t"page": "options.html"\t}}

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User reviews

B Mitch (ID: 00000086517a3fc1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/10/2024 Update: DEV! Could you add support for allowing users to make as many "global pinned tabs" as we want? In other words, if I could chose to make any of the pinned tabs in a right click context menu by the each. Also, a way to configure this to automatically happen with all pinned tabs and could then use the right click context menu on individual pinned tabs in order to exclude them from being global? Basically, two modes. Auto make global (across all windows) if pinned with ability to right click to exclude vs user selected via tab right click context menu. If I can contact you directly I'll try but kudos for your work and for mostly solving an issue that clearly a lot of people have with both major browsers.

Krzysztof Pawlak (ID: 000000d8d0817eac) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/10/2022 Super.

Roland Kenner (ID: 0000001fbd66cad5) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/25/2022 After fighting with a different unname extension that insisted on focusing on the pinned tab, I discovered this one which does exactly what I want it to. Thanks.

Bill Reinhardt (ID: 000000b42042faa5) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/12/2022 Thank you! Really great utility.

Melvin MacDonald (ID: 000000fc5a3ccc1a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/17/2022 Just went through a whole batch of extensions to find the functionality of this one and ended up on this one. This extension works perfectly as described and goes above and beyond with the simple but appreciated customization options. Thanks for the great utility.

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