> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://withfew.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Bin

> How a tab moves out of your way, comes back, and is eventually closed.

Closing tabs automatically only works if you trust it. Bin is what makes that
trust reasonable: nothing is closed the moment Few decides you are done with it.

## Where Bin is

Bin is a real Chrome tab group, named **Bin**, coloured grey and collapsed, at
the end of your tab strip. It is not a list inside the extension — the tabs are
still your tabs, in your window, and you can drag them in and out yourself.

Tabs that move into Bin are also unloaded, so they stop using memory. Chrome
reloads a tab the moment you open it again.

## The three states

<Steps>
  <Step title="Active">
    A normal tab. Few is only watching how long it has been since you looked at
    it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="In Bin">
    Moved out of the way, unloaded, still yours. **Opening it takes it out of
    Bin** — there is no restore button to find. The popup also offers Restore,
    Close now and Protect site for each tab.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Closed">
    After its time in Bin runs out, the tab is closed. Few sends one
    notification for the batch, with **Undo**, which reopens them.
  </Step>
</Steps>

By default a tab joins Bin after **3 hours** unused, and is closed after
**five days** in Bin. Both are yours to change in
[the editor](/docs/guides/workflows).

Those five days are a starting point: a search page gets less, work you are in
the middle of gets more, and a page that looks private — banking, health,
security — is never closed from Bin at all. Few works this out on your device.
Each tab's own closing time is in the popup. [How Few understands your
tabs](/docs/guides/grouping#time-in-bin) has the table.

## Putting a tab back

Three ways, all equivalent:

* **Open the tab.** Expand the Bin group and click it.
* **Restore**, from the popup's Bin list.
* **Undo**, on the notification Few sent when it moved things.

## Dragging tabs in and out yourself

Few keeps its ledger in step with what you do. Drag a tab into Bin and its clock
starts; drag one out and Few forgets it was ever there. The same happens after a
browser restart, when Chrome restores your groups.

<Note>
  Few only ever manages its own Bin group. Groups you made yourself are left
  alone — see [What Few never touches](/docs/guides/protection).
</Note>

## What is never binned

Pinned tabs, the tab you are looking at, tabs playing audio, sites you have
protected, and anything that is not an ordinary web page: `about:blank`, the
new-tab page, settings pages and extension pages.