Cycle through your Chrome tabs automatically. Great for monitoring information on a TV with a computer attached.

Latest Version

Version
1.0.3
Update
June 23, 2024
Size
49.21KiB
Developer
Category
Users
10,000+
Rating
4.3871 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
ActiveTab
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TabCarousel Extension

A Chrome extension to help you keep tabs on info you want to monitor. It's great for cycling through tabs on an external display, like a TV.

Authors: Benjamin Oakes, Madhur Ahuja, and Jim Adamson

Tutorial

TabCarousel is simple: open tabs you want to monitor throughout the day, then click the toolbar icon. To stop, click the icon again.

By default, TabCarousel will flip through your tabs every 15 s, reloading them every 5 min. It's great on a unused display or TV. Put Chrome in full-screen mode (F11, or cmd-shift-f on the Mac) and let it go.

If you want to change how often TabCarousel flips through your tabs, right click on the toolbar icon and choose \"Options\".

New in 1.0.3 (2024-06-21):

* Sponsorship links

New in 1.0.2 (2024-06-19):

* Fix no carouselling when flipWait set to > 30 seconds (Thank you, Jim Adamson!)

New in 1.0.1 (2024-06-10):

* Fixed auto startup (Thank you, Madhur Ahuja!)

New in 1.0.0 (2023-12-26):

* Manifest v3 support (Thank you, Madhur Ahuja!)

New in 0.5.4 (2020-05-14):

* Reduce permissions for Chrome Web Store policies

New in 0.5.3 (2012-08-21):

* Bug fixes

New in 0.5.2 (2011-07-06):

* Added an option to start Carousel automatically, by request from a user
* Tabs that have previously failed to reload now reload correctly
* Carousel now only flips through tabs in the window in which it was started

Example Uses

On a computer that has an external display (like an HDTV), try opening:

* NewRelic - Open as many tabs as you want for your apps -- don't forget to turn on \"kiosk mode\"
* Twitter - Make a list of services you use, for example, and open it
* Status sites:
* GitHub
* Heroku
* Monitor your CI service
* Packages with tracking information
* Anything else that's on the web that you want to monitor

The TabCarousel wiki on GitHub has more: https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel/wiki

TabCarousel is open source software. Contributions are welcome, as are suggestions and bug reports. Check the project out at https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "TabCarousel", "version": "1.0.3", "description": "Cycle through your Chrome tabs automatically. Great for monitoring information on a TV with a computer attached.", "homepage_url": "https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel", "icons": { "16": "images/icon_16.png", "32": "images/icon_32.png", "48": "images/icon_48.png", "128": "images/icon_128.png" }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.min.js", "type": "module" }, "action": { "default_icon": "images/icon_32.png", "16": "images/icon_16.png", "32": "images/icon_32.png", "48": "images/icon_48.png", "128": "images/icon_128.png" }, "options_page": "options.html", "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab" ]}
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User reviews

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Jordan Weaver (ID: 000000659918c1b6) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 06/08/2022 It works great. The best part is that it requires zero extra permissions. It would be 5 stars if it allowed me to change the auto refresh time or disable it.

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Alexandra Melia (ID: 0000007c9ce2dbba) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/22/2021 It's good, but very disappointing you can't use full screen mode

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AC KA (ID: 0000006baa121e74) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/10/2020 Feedback from early users has clearly been taken on board as this extension works perfectly IMO. From one dev to another, excellent job mate :)

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Wong Eric (ID: 000000f2ba44e0a0) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/29/2018 赞得一逼,肥肠好用!

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Jeroen Hutjens (ID: 000000ff25ec4fd3) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/28/2018 Very helpful and simple tool. Does exactly what it needs to do, cycle through tabs and refresh them once in a while... Great!