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Reviews for Dustman - AutoClose Tabs

Dustman - AutoClose Tabs by qzb, mbid

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  • by Firefox user 13454772, 7 years ago
    I need this feature, but this Dustman is a madman. As soon as I installed it, it closed 450 tabs and remembered exactly 0 of them. What the heck? How about some more sensible defaults or a soft start, or at least a limit to how quickly it can close tabs (say, one tab every 5 seconds)?

    Also, I'd like to be able to lock tabs that I don't want to be automatically closed.
  • by Leo2, 7 years ago
    After updating of FF to v56 and Dustman to v.2 it doesn't remove tabs from the closed tab lists when you reopen them. Also, in the settings for the max # of closed tabs disappeared. My system is Linux Mint 18

    update.
    Thank you for the answer. Can you make the max # of tabs selectable? I usually set them 100 or 150, but in the new version is is unclear how many are stored.

    To store all closed tabs can be inconvenient and will lead to storing obsolete links.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi Leo2, thanks for the feedback.
    The v2 version is a complete rewrite of the v1 version to stay compatible with Firefox 57. Given that I'd never used the closed tabs list, I seem to have forgotten some things. Will fix them soon.

    Regarding the max # of closed tabs setting: Did you actually use this? I assumed that most people would either want all their closed tabs to be saved or none. Currently, Dustman simply saves the last 100 tabs, and forgets the others if the appropriate setting is checked. Would you rather set a bigger (reasonable) limit, say 1000?

    Answer to update (wow, the comment system is inconvenient here!): Sure, I will take care of it in the next few days.

    Update 2: I think both issues should be fixed now.