OneTab
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 34 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Recommended as a tab cemetery: closes open tabs and saves them as a list. Critics say it can crash alongside other extensions.
Recommended as a tab cemetery: closes open tabs and saves them as a list. Critics say it can crash alongside other extensions.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 91%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 10 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Closes tabs and saves them as a list
“It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs.”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs” “I just open all the tabs that interest me and move them to OneTab.”
Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?” “It'll save and close all those tabs.”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?” Removes tabs without fear of losing them
“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.”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?” “It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs.”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs” “OneTab extension to allow me to remove tabs without fear of "losing" them completely”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work” Praised as amazing
“Another thing that I've enjoyed a lot is a browser plugin called OneTab”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work” “something like onetab is amazing”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Can crash alongside other extensions
“the crashing is caused by certain extensions such as OneTab and All Tabs Helper”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?” Doesn't solve the semantic search issue
“actually does help me "feel" a bit better, but doesn't solve the semantic search issue”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “A tab hoarder's journey to sanity”
Other browser extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other browser extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SponsorBlock | 137 | 4 | 97% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers | 76 | 13 | 85% | 10 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| NoScript | 61 | 11 | 85% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| OneTabThis page | 10 | 1 | 91% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
All 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs.”
“I just open all the tabs that interest me and move them to OneTab.”
“either flatten your live-tabs-only into a list or auto-close them”
“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.”
“Simple clean and easily sharable.”
“OneTab extension to allow me to remove tabs without fear of "losing" them completely”
“Another thing that I've enjoyed a lot is a browser plugin called OneTab”
“something like onetab is amazing”
“actually does help me "feel" a bit better, but doesn't solve the semantic search issue”
“Onetab add-on in FF works fine.”
“the crashing is caused by certain extensions such as OneTab and All Tabs Helper”
“It'll save and close all those tabs.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.