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Preview of Zen Tabs Cleaner

Zen Tabs Cleaner by qskkk

Automatically closes unpinned tabs inactive for a configurable number of hours, like Arc's auto-archive feature.

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Zen Tabs Cleaner brings Arc's auto-archive to Zen Browser and Firefox.

Every 15 minutes, it checks each tab's last activity and closes tabs that meet ALL of these conditions:
• inactive for longer than your threshold (12 hours by default) — each tab has its own countdown, reset
every time you visit it
• not pinned (pinned tabs and Zen Essentials are never touched)
• not the active tab of a window
• not playing audio (music, video calls…)
• not on a domain from your exclusion list

Tabs hidden in other Zen workspaces are cleaned too, just like Arc's spaces.

After each cleanup, a notification tells you how many tabs were closed — click it to restore them all. You
can also restore from the popup.

Extras:
• "Clean now" button in the popup to close all unpinned tabs on demand
• Pause toggle to suspend cleaning temporarily
• Configurable threshold with 1h / 6h / 12h / 24h presets (decimals accepted)
• Domain exclusion list (subdomains included)

No data collection, no external requests. Open source (MIT): https://github.com/qskkk/zen-cleaner
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Required permissions:

  • Display notifications to you
  • Access browser tabs

Data collection:

  • The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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Version
1.0.6
Size
28.58 KB
Last updated
11 days ago (Jul 31, 2026)
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