Show HN: My first Chrome extension (TabZolo.co)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6077106
by mrdazm • 13 years ago
9 4 13 years ago

I had an idea to build a Chrome extension to help stay on track with browsing the internet in today's multi-tab-able browsers. I wanted a solution that would encourage (ie, force) me to finish my business on a single given tab before going on to doing something else in another. TabZolo is the result of my dabbling with a buddy.

Using the chrome.* APIs, when enabled, the extension forces you to use one tab and window (except incognito windows - but I probably shouldn't have told you that) and kills any new tabs/windows that get created instead replacing the current tab with the new URL.

You can check it out at www.tabzolo.co. It's completely open-sourced on GitHub too if anyone wants to extend its functionality.

What do you think of it?

For more on TabZolo:

GitHub - https://github.com/dasmall/TabZolo

My blog post - http://dazm.co/weekend-project-tabzolo-co/

My co-creator's post - http://leonardocorrea.com/posts/2013-07-14-tabzolo-to-the-rescue/

LifeHacker Mention - http://lifehacker.com/tabzolo-keeps-you-focused-on-one-tab-at-a-time-845544805

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