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You might've once been stressed out with the responsibility of keeping a Tamagotchi alive as a child.

As an adult,update Archives you're likely mildly perturbed by ensuring you don't have too many Chrome tabs open, slowing down your computer. Life is hard.

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Now you can meld the anxieties of past and present with a new Chrome extension called Tabagotchi. It's essentially a Tamagotchi copycat, but the pet — which you'll find when you open a new tab — survives on less Chrome tabs being opened.

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Too many tabs, and your pet is dead. But at least you won't have to raise it from scratch. Just close a few tabs and your pet will be fine.

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The key to the game is to maintain a small amount of open tabs. Keep five or fewer open tabs every hour, and you'll get one bar closer to evolving your Tabagotchi.

Five is a very small number, especially in this day and age where we need to keep tabs on everything (geddit), but at least you'll be more conscious of your Chrome tab usage — which we can all admit, gets out of hand far too easily.

[h/t Gizmodo]

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