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I guess I'm looking for a "unique tab" extension that would behave as follows:

  1. I open a new tab and type in "mail.google.com"
  2. It looks for an already open tab with that url
  3. If found, it takes me to that tab and closes the current one.

It should also work the same if I follow a link, like to google calendar - to find the existing calendar tab, rather than a new one.

Basically, I find it easier and faster to open a new tab rather than find an existing one. Which means I have like 4 calendar tabs open. Which means every alarm goes off 4 times...

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EDIT Previously linked extension doesn't work. Only One Tab, however appears to work flawlessly.

This should do the trick for you, though the logic is a bit different in that it closes the OLD tab and opens the NEW tab. Same effect in the end though.

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  • Perfect! (It does behave the way I described - closes the new tab, redirects to the old one). You have to tell it each site that should be unique.
    – Steve Bennett
    Commented Feb 2, 2011 at 8:36
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    this is far from perfect. you have to electively say for each tab that you want it to be a singleton - and plus if you have multiple windows open it isn't able to jump to another window. it just closes the tab as you type the url. it this not technically possible? someone needs to solve this problem
    – Simon
    Commented Apr 19, 2014 at 23:51
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Fast Unique Tab is what you're looking for.

The other extensions mentioned here are vastly outdated and some simply don't work.

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  • Fast Unique Tab seems not working
    – Alireza Fattahi
    Commented May 7 at 6:58
  • awesome , it works flawlessly, also I thought what would I do If I need to duplicate the tabs for some reason but seemlessly this is allowing me to open duplicate tab If I click on duplicate tab, I thought this thing would not work but that is also working.
    – NikhilP
    Commented May 8 at 12:01
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Based on review here -

  1. Duplicate Tab - Simple, effective and fast

  2. Clutter Free - Same with Whitelisting option. #recommended

  3. Unique Tabs - Only notification, no redirection

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I have found Unique Tab, which works without telling each single instance that you want it to be unique.

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