Tab Cap: Limit Your Tab Count

Most people keep too many tabs open. Not because they need them all, but because closing them feels risky. The result is a browser that looks like an unfinished to-do list. And a mind that feels the same way.

Tab Cap is a Chrome extension that sets a hard limit on how many tabs you can have open at once. When you reach the limit, new tabs are blocked. Not closed. You see a clear message and decide what to do next.

How it works

You set a tab limit in the extension settings. The default is 10. When you try to open a tab beyond that number, you land on a simple blocking page instead of the new page. From there you can pause the limit temporarily, add the site to a whitelist, or open the settings to adjust your limit.

You can scope the limit to a single window or apply it globally across all windows. Pinned tabs and system pages can be excluded from the count. If you use certain sites constantly, you can whitelist them so they open freely without counting against your limit.

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