Hello, this extension is so good for me.
Thank you for developing it.
I wish you all the best.

Can please make it so I can only open 1 tab?
Edit: I'm going hardcore on this "1 tab" thing, I'm trying to use my pc only for watching classes and when I have two tabs I have the option to open social media on the second one, please. This is one of my favourite tabs, and the option to make turning off more difficult (like timeblocks or a waiting time to turn off)
Edit:Thank you so much, I'll be waiting for the waiting time option, love your work.

This add-on is wonderful. I am autistic and often lose track of how many tabs I have open, overwhelming my computer. My only recommendation for improvement is to add a waiting period to turn it off.

Fell in love with this plugin, prevents me from being an absolute tab hoarder. Thank you! :)

First time I've ever reviewed an extension. Absolutely absolutely love it! Keeps me very grounded :) Thank you!

Greatest add-on that ever was

A happy face icon would be more accurate.

I am autistic as well and find my self getting many tabs open without even realizing it. On my phone I had 500 open. My computer was 50. It slows it down alot. I downloaded this and it makes my computer and phone much faster since i downloaded this addon and the sound lets me know theres too many tabs open and i should delete some. Its really helpful. Thank you for making this.

thank you very much for this wonderful and useful addon

A charming (and useful!) add-on, I love the story behind it. Thanks Rudy!

Limit Tabs version 2.2.6 with Firefox 108.0 here. I created an account so that I could slap a five star rating to this add-on.

"Limit Tabs" is very simple and effective. Two weeks ago I had +2000 tabs open (Btw I'm using "Tree Style Tab" add-on). I forced myself to close unnecessary tabs with Limit Tabs, by lowering and lowering the max number of tabs, step by step. Now my max is 100 tabs. Quite a decrease!

(Btw another useful add-on to really clean up the tabtree is add-on called "Close Similar Tabs")

Now, I plan to stay under 100 tabs and Limit Tabs will help me with that too. Thanks!

ASD/ADHD here, I guess no surprise there. Recommending this add-on to anyone who needs push and encouragement in control over chaos.

You have no idea how wide my smile was when I found this extension and started experimenting with it.

My workflow combines TreeStyleTabs, dozens of named virtual desktops, and Firefox's built in tab title searching ability. My tabs are an extension of my mind. But it's true! - I don't need 400+ tabs. The old ones just lose relevance after a while.

I configured a global limit of 200, waited for the extension to enforce it, and boom! my system's responsiveness jumped.

5 stars for what you have right now in v2.2.6 :)

I did run into a couple of issues, though, so I extracted your code and looked through it (pretty clean, thanks!) and I have a couple of comments:

1. I found a bug where the act of loading the preferences page causes the add-on to enter "current window limit" mode, regardless of whether it was configured to use "current window limit" or "global limit" mode until then. I think using a ?? rather than a || on line 141 of options.js fixes this.

2. The "Least Recently Used" strategy for removing a tab always removes tabs from the current window, regardless of whether the tab limit is enforced globally or per-window. This surprised me - I was expecting this strategy to remove the oldest tabs from all windows when the limit is being enforced globally. I admit both strategies are valid! My suggestion - split the current LRU strategy in two: "Least Recently Used (Current)" and "Least Recently Used (Global)".

3. I'm happy to see that the "last accessed" timestamp of a tab survives a browser restart! (I verified this!) If it did not, that would play hob with my setup. Just mentioning this here in case someone else was worried about it like I was.

I saw from another response that you don't have a repository anywhere, or I would have said all this in Issues or PRs or something.

I saw this is GPLv3 (thanks!) so I threw up a repo on GitHub with some changes. I'm not supposed to put links in reviews, but you can find it under user "mosbasik" and repo "limit-tabs". I've implemented the bugfix and LRU strategy split I mentioned.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thoughtfully designed. Many thanks, RudyF

Does what proposes to do

Great addon, does what it says on the tin! Very similar situation for me with my sister, tons of tabs and she would complain why her laptop would be slow, was able to deploy the plugin over group policy to prevent removal and it works a treat!