Vertical tab management from your side panel with support for tab groups, multiple windows, and much more.

Latest Version

Version
2024.5.0
Update
November 26, 2024
Size
3.59MiB
Developer
tabshelf.com
Category
Users
4,000+
Rating
4.2973 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
Tabs
TabGroups
SidePanel
Favicon
Commands
Bookmarks
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Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs Extension

Tab Shelf is a minimal, yet versatile, vertical tab manager for Chrome.

🤔 WHY VERTICAL TABS?

Whether you're frantically doing research for a paper, queuing up articles to read, or you just love hoarding tabs, tab management can be a pain. Having all your tabs squeezed at the top of your window makes it hard to remember what tabs you have and to quickly navigate between them.

Being able to persistently view all your tabs in a convenient, colorful, and customizable vertical view takes that headache away!

⭐️ FEATURES

- View and manage your tabs conveniently from the side panel.
- Use rules to automatically group tabs from specific websites.
- Choose from amongst 20 colors to differentiate your tab groups.
- Quickly search or filter your tabs by group, window, or whether they've got audio playing.
- Sleep your tabs to save memory and energy.
- Sync your settings and grouping rules via your Google account across your other computers.
- Light and dark themes to match your browser, plus 20 accent colors to give your Tab Shelf some flair.

🌏 TRANSLATIONS

Tab Shelf is available in 17 languages.

🔐 PRIVACY POLICY

Please read Tab Shelf's privacy policy (which can be found at: https://www.tabshelf.com/privacy-policy) to understand how Tab Shelf prioritizes responsible permissions usage and user privacy. Tab Shelf does not and will never collect your data.

🛠️ USAGE

You can launch Tab Shelf in a number of ways:
1. Opening the Chrome side panel via the toolbar button (on the right-hand side, next to your profile button) and selecting Tab Shelf.
2. Pinning the Tab Shelf extension button to the toolbar. This allows you to open Tab Shelf in a single click.

You can also use the default keyboard shortcut to quickly open Tab Shelf:
* On Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + O
* On macOS: Command + Shift + O

For a more detailed user guide, please visit:
https://tabshelf.com/user-guide

Disclaimer: This extension requires at least Chrome 114 in order for side panel integration to work.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.5.0
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NEW FEATURES

- Save tab groups and windows (including menu to manage saved tab groups and windows).
- New tab button below the last tab in the tab list (optional).
- Click on the active tab to switch back to the last active tab (optional).
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs", "version": "2024.5.0", "description": "Vertical tab management from your side panel with support for tab groups, multiple windows, and much more.", "manifest_version": 3, "author": "Clarence Siew", "permissions": [ "storage", "tabs", "tabGroups", "sidePanel", "favicon", "commands", "bookmarks" ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": ["_favicon/*"], "matches": [""], "extension_ids": ["*"] } ], "background": { "service_worker": "service-worker.js", "type": "module" }, "action": { "default_title": "Click to open Tab Shelf" }, "side_panel": { "default_path": "index.html" }, "icons": { "16": "icons/icon16.png", "32": "icons/icon32.png", "48": "icons/icon48.png", "128": "icons/icon128.png" }, "commands": { "_execute_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+O", "mac": "Command+Shift+O" } }, "move_current_tab": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+M", "mac": "Alt+M" }, "description": "Select where to move the current active tab" }, "trigger_edit_mode": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Shift+Space", "mac": "Command+Shift+Space" }, "description": "Select tabs in the tab list" } }}
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User reviews

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Jondeir Junior (ID: 000000bc4536d959) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/26/2023 Great extension! Please make it compatible with the new tab group save and sync feature in chrome, so that we can close tab groups but they remain saved for later usage

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Kc Profdev (ID: 000000e8154a25ab) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/08/2023 This is absolutely genius. So many tab managers out there, this I think is the best in terms of attractiveness, simplicity & sheer usability. The only issue I've found is that it doesn't work with Vivaldi, but that's probably because this browser messes with Workspaces, Tab Groupings & the Side Bar in it's own way, which probably isn't compatible with Tab Shelf. Would be nice if this could be fixed though, as Vivaldi is my main browser... Oh, and more than a basic selection of colours are needed for more than 9 Tab Groups. But great work otherwise, an outstanding addition to Chrome.

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harktu (ID: 000000e05d908696) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/30/2023 great!

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Zeins Shiri (ID: 000000f553294ef1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/31/2023 good,hoping to add a new function of shefting tabs in a group.