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How to remove duplicate tabs

Collections cluttered with duplicate tabs? Our removal feature will help you find duplicate tabs and allow you to choose which ones to delete or keep.

Want to prevent gaining duplicate tabs within your collections? Turn on our duplicate prevention feature and any tabs with the same URL added to a collection will automatically be removed.

Removing duplicate tabs

1. Click into the Space settings

An arrow pointing to the settings icon at the top right of a Space

2. Click 'Search' to start the process of finding tabs with the same URL within the Space.

The Edit Space dialog with an arrow pointing to Search under Search For Duplicates

3. View all the instances of that tab throughout the Space.

The Duplicates Tabs Found pop-up, with arrows to the two matching tabs in the Space

4. Select the tabs that you want to remove and click "Delete" from the bottom menu

Both duplicate tabs selected, with an arrow pointing to Delete in the bottom menu

5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 until all duplicate tabs are removed. To leave this state, click the 'X' on the bottom right pop-up.

Preventing duplicate tabs

1. Open the main menu and toggle on "Remove duplicate tabs"

Animation: turning on the Remove duplicate tabs toggle in the main menu

2. While the toggle is on, duplicate tabs will automatically be removed within collections.

This is applicable when saving sessions or dragging tabs into collections. Once a tab has been removed you will see a temporary notification on the bottom

Note: Any collections that previously had duplicates prior to turning the toggle on will remain in the collections.

The notification 1 Duplicate tab removed at the bottom right of the screen