Zoom tab remover — Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi extension

Chandan Singh
3 min readApr 1, 2023

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Have you ever had your Chrome browser cluttered with tabs launched by apps such as Zoom (Video Communication Application), Bluejeans, Microsoft Team, and others?

It is a common problem for the people who join back to back Zoom calls as part of their daily job or for employees of companies that use Zoom for video conferencing.

After a number of consecutive meetings, you take effort to manually close these tabs to declutter your browser.

With Zoom Tab Remover chrome extension, these lingering Zoom tabs are automatically closed if you are using Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi or any chromium based browsers. Which means, you need not to worry about manually closing these tabs.

No analytics. No ads. Completely free.

Here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-tab-remover/aipgpbkgomhfcdkibhkooenbgimpiigf

Zoom Tab Remover

There are other similar extensions available, so why choose this particular one? Some of the limitations of similar extensions are:

  • You cannot modify the interval before tabs are closed, and
  • their stop working when the Zoom URL changes or Zoom URL is something like zoomgov.com

How does it work?

The Zoom Tab Remover extension kicks in whenever a link to the Zoom launcher launches in a new tab in your Chrome browser. Finally, it closes the tab after a configurable interval (5 seconds by default; 10, 15, 30 seconds or 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 minutes are configurable).

Configurable “Interval” (after this interval the tab will be closed)

Using the Zoom Tab Remover extension, you can configure (alter, add, or remove) the set of URL patterns. These URL patterns will be monitored, and whenever a tab with a matching URL is opened, it will be closed after the interval you specify.

Configurable URL patterns

You can restore default options anytime.

The capability to add URL patterns enables you to add not only Zoom URLs but also any other URL (which is opened in a tab) that you wish to automatically close after the specified intervals.

You can include URLs for Microsoft Teams, Bluejeans, Amazon Chime, Web launchers, and application launchers, among others.

Extension Security

This extension keeps all the information locally in your browser. There is no communication (upload/download) related to your browsing history to (or from) any server. No data leaves your computer from this extension.

Need more information?

You can find it here: https://github.com/chandan-singh/zoom-tab-remover

Disclosure

I am the developer of this extension.

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