Tuck Tabs Helps You Snooze, Organize, and Automatically Close Browser Tabs

Browser tabs are the best—and the worst. They help us keep track of everything, but too many open tabs can quickly become impossible to manage.

You might find yourself staring at a webpage you don’t remember opening, or holding on to tabs you want to close because you know you’ll need them later. Tuck Tabs is a free browser extension designed to help.

Tuck Tabs works a lot like Gmail’s snooze feature. Instead of keeping a browser tab open indefinitely, you can snooze it and have it return at a later time. Tuck can also automatically close idle tabs and save them in a list so you can reopen them whenever you need them.

How to snooze a browser tab

To get started, install the extension. Tuck Tabs works with Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, and several other browsers. You don’t need to create an account.

After installation, an owl wrapped in a blanket appears as an icon in your browser toolbar. Click it to see snooze options for later today, tomorrow, the weekend, or next week.

Selecting one of these options closes the current tab and schedules it to reopen later. If you prefer keyboard shortcuts, Tuck Tabs supports commands for Windows and macOS. On Windows, use Ctrl-Shift-1, 2, or 3. On macOS, use Cmd-Shift-1, 2, or 3 to snooze a tab and reopen it today, tomorrow, or next week, respectively.

Set a custom time with natural language

Tuck Tabs also includes a text box for choosing exactly when to reopen the current tab. The field understands natural language, so you can enter a phrase such as “Monday at 2pm” and the extension will interpret it for you.

Automatically close idle tabs

By default, Tuck Tabs automatically closes tabs that have been idle for 24 hours. Those tabs are saved inside the extension, where you can find and reopen them if necessary.

You can change how long a tab must remain idle before it closes. Available options include 3 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, and 7 days. You can also disable automatic tab closing entirely.

Pinned tabs and tab groups are not closed automatically. You can also exclude specific domains, which helps keep important sites such as Google Docs and Gmail open.

A simpler way to manage too many tabs

With tab snoozing, automatic cleanup, keyboard shortcuts, and scheduled reopening, Tuck Tabs can help tame your worst tab habits. If you’re tired of drowning in tabs you can’t actually access, this free browser extension is worth trying.