# OneTab

10 Hacker News commenters recommended OneTab and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a tab cemetery: closes open tabs and saves them as a list. Critics say it can crash alongside other extensions.

## Why people recommend it

- Closes tabs and saves them as a list (3 comments): "It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240140)) "I just open all the tabs that interest me and move them to OneTab." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308563)) "It'll save and close all those tabs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300714))
- Removes tabs without fear of losing them (3 comments): "I found an extension that I use as a "tab cemetery": a place where I can just store all the open tabs once in a while and start from fresh." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935002)) "It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240140)) "OneTab extension to allow me to remove tabs without fear of "losing" them completely" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995458))
- Praised as amazing (2 comments): "Another thing that I've enjoyed a lot is a browser plugin called OneTab" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985944)) "something like onetab is amazing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983236))

## What people warn about

- Can crash alongside other extensions (1 comments): "the crashing is caused by certain extensions such as OneTab and All Tabs Helper" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310772))
- Doesn't solve the semantic search issue (1 comments): "actually does help me "feel" a bit better, but doesn't solve the semantic search issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531526))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Unhook](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unhook.md): 48 recommend
- [SingleFile](https://hackerapproved.com/p/singlefile.md): 34 recommend
- [Vimium](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vimium.md): 29 recommend
- [Sidebery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sidebery.md): 27 recommend
- [Redirector Firefox extension](https://hackerapproved.com/p/redirector-browser-extension.md): 24 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "OneTab", https://hackerapproved.com/p/onetab/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).