You tell it which tabs you often have open which you consider always safe to close and it gives you a button to close them all at once.
You can try this extension before it’s in the Chrome Web Store, by:
- download Autoclose.zip – https://github.com/dannyhope/autoclose/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
- unzip it
- open Chrome
- select Window > Extensions
- toggle dev mode on (the switch is in the top right of the Extensions page)
- choose Load unpacked
- pick the src folder in the autoclose directory
- the icon shoulod appear
- right click the icon and select Pin