Chrome Window Parker v1.5.6.1

✨ Added

Sync and autosave

• Added optional settings sync through Chrome, with controls for all settings, groups or individual settings. Sync is off by default. New computers adopt shared values for untouched settings and ask before replacing settings changed locally.
• Added autosave to Settings and removed the Save settings button. Numbers save on Enter or when leaving the box; excluded sites save when leaving the list. Closing Settings keeps valid edits.

Parked-window identity

• Added the original tab's title and favicon to the parking page.
• The new favicon permission uses Chrome's saved icon without contacting the site or adding an install warning.

Fixed

Parking reliability

• Fixed empty parked windows remaining open after their last real tab was closed or moved away. Clear parked tabs still keeps windows open and never starts discards.
• Fixed parking pages remaining behind after being dragged to another window. The original window gets a full parking delay, and tab changes blocked during a drag finish after it ends.
• Fixed windows occasionally parking too soon after use when Chrome had stopped the extension's background worker.
• Fixed Discard immediately sometimes leaving eligible tabs loaded while the parking page was still opening. Let Chrome decide continues to make no discard requests.

Tab protection and recovery

• Fixed tab protection being lost when Chrome unloads a tab and gives it a new ID.
• Fixed recovery records remaining in storage after parked windows closed while the extension was idle.

Improved

Settings and excluded sites

• Added home-address paste handling, Clean up and Undo for excluded sites. Clean up sorts and removes duplicate rules without changing which pages are excluded; Undo restores the previous text.
• Improved validation and error messages for invalid numbers, excluded sites, storage failures and sync conflicts. Invalid edits leave the previous settings in use.
• Changed Restore defaults to ask for confirmation and reset settings and sync choices on this computer only. Shared settings on other computers are preserved.

UI and accessibility

• Improved Settings, popup and parking-page readability, keyboard focus, screen-reader labels, field contrast and High Contrast theme indicators.
• Added an immediate Light/Dark/Auto switch, clearer protection lists with window numbering, the installed version in Settings, and sharper toolbar icons.
• Added Report a bug buttons and clearer Buy me a coffee links in the popup and Settings.

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Install from the Chrome Web Store. For manual installation, unzip the attached package, turn on Developer mode at chrome://extensions and choose Load unpacked. The attached RELEASE-SHA256.txt checksum verifies the ZIP.

Chrome Window Parker v1.5.1.3

First Chrome Web Store release

Chrome Window Parker lets idle Chrome windows rest and brings back your previous tab when you return. Tabs stay in their original windows, with their order, pins and groups intact.

• Works alongside Chrome Memory Saver: Let Chrome decide makes no discard requests; optional Discard immediately requests unloading of every loaded eligible real tab when a window is newly parked.
• Configurable parking and return delays, site exclusions and session-only tab protection.
• Clear parked tabs removes parking pages without starting discards or waking every tab.
• Auto, Light and Dark appearance across the popup, Settings and parking page.
• Local operation, with no account, analytics, backend or remote code. All features are free; development support is optional.

Requires Chrome 120 or later. Testing to date has been on macOS; Windows, Linux and ChromeOS have not yet been formally verified.

For manual installation, download the runtime ZIP below, check it against RELEASE-SHA256.txt, extract it, and select the folder using Load unpacked in chrome://extensions. See the README for installation and support for troubleshooting.