Automatically Close Old Tabs

Gartunius

Vlad It's different beacuse on the initial request there's more things, like being able to select if a domain, for example youtube.com, won't have a timer for it, if tabs that are playing sound should have a timer, where as in the "good enough solution" there would only be the setting for how long the timer should be and if tabs would close or suspend.

whitemamba

If I understand correctly, one good implementation of what you want is what arc does with closing it's tabs. How every x amount of hours, all your tabs except pinned tabs are closed??

Gartunius

whitemamba I haven't used Arc myself, so I can't say for sure, but from what I've heard, it's a good implementation. If possible it would be useful to also have the exception by domain, that's really usefull for youtube and github for example, so I don't lose hard to find stuff withouth having to pin everything.

belg

+1
I've been daily driving Arc and having it clear out my tabs based on my preferred time to clear them is quite nice. It actually forces me to read and be more cautious on which tabs I have open, increasing productivity.

whitemamba you're pretty spot on with how it works. It archives tabs based on the users defined preference: 24h, 7d, 30d, never. One can also find auto-closed tabs in a special history container so they can easily restore auto-closed tabs.
It keeps only the pinned tabs in that browsing space. I suppose one could define a URL whitelist/blaclist to make it more customisable for the end-user which would be nice to have but it'd also increase the scope.

keenfrog

I'd also love to have auto-closing of tabs based on time. :

Here's how Arc's feature works:
https://resources.arc.net/en/articles/6701333-auto-archive-clean-as-you-go

DaveOrion

I would like to have an option that Orion Browser auto-close NON-PINNED / FAV tabs after a day. Pinned ones should stay there.

I am one of the users who heavily uses multiple tabs in single session and does not close them after each visit. This then accumulates to 20+ Tabs opened during a session.

I know the Arc Browser has this functionality and it was god-send. It helps me do 'garbage collection' for me and it saves me time to manually closing some old tabs I have had opened in the past.

The feature should be presented in the Settings as an optional toggle, where Non-Pinned tabs would be auto-closed after a selected period of time since they were opened.

Pictor

I'd like to enthusiastically support this too.

Closing tabs shouldn't be homework. I want to open tabs as I need them, and unless pinned, have them just close behind me after a time. In Arc, I used 12 hours, but some configuration would be nice. At no point should I need to manually go through my tabs, clicking a bunch of close buttons or Cmd-W...that's busy work, and it doesn't serve me.

I do not want them suspended, I want them closed (unless pinned of course)

Low power mode is also a nice option, but it's clearly oriented around power by suspending the tab. That's useful, , but it's a very different feature and fills a different need.

MysticMiyagi

I'd suggest this gets merged with:
https://orionfeedback.org/d/4207-automatically-close-old-tabs/21

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cackle1931

I second this. The best implementation of this is probably Arc.

let user select duration (1hr, 24hr, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc.)
you can find manually closed tabs AND automatically closed tabs in history (you can set the filter). so even when you find you need that tab later, you can still find it.

This is very helpful for anyone like me who has tons of tabs open at all times. No need to regularly close tabs anymore because the browser does it for me.

PepePaez

I recently moved from Arc to Orion, I must say Orion very quickly won me over, there's a lot of good stuff! But not being able to automatically non-saved tabs is quickly adding up to an unsightly list of tabs. This feature would actually improve my productivity since I don't have to manually close tabs that have been suspended for a while.

In arc I was able to start my day with only a handful of tabs from the previous evening, not tabs that had been open at some point 3 days ago.

carlstedt

Please add this and global pinned tabs! And Arc is gone for me too!

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