Tab Master Control
Replaces New Tab tabs with a tab manager that displays all tabs visually as a document and can be used to access, close, and filter tabs by category using user-editable regular expressions applied to their URLs. It also sorts all tabs by URL.
What is Tab Master Control?
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Summary
This extension replaces New Tab tabs with a tab manager that displays all tabs visually as a document and can be used to access, close, and filter tabs by category using user-editable regular expressions applied to their URLs. It also sorts all tabs by URL.
Knowledge of regular expressions is required to use make full use of this extension.
This extension was designed to address what I perceive to be some shortcomings with other tab managers:
- They’re easy to install and forget. Replacing a fundamental operation like opening a new tab makes Tab Master Control hard to ignore.
- Tabs are not sorted automatically. People do not want to spend time manually sorting something as ephemeral as tabs. Tab sorting by URL requires effort once.
- Tabs must still be visually searched as a list or from within an arbitrarily sorted list of lists in which visual cues like favicons may be missing. If you know the content category, title, or URL of a tab, it should be possible to find it quickly by a direct search.
Improved control of existing extension components, more tab manipulation components, and localizations to Chinese and Spanish are forthcoming. In particular, the ability to create and destroy tab categories will be added and search for tabs by criteria such as "audio playing" will be added.
Please report bugs to [email protected].
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Risk impact
Tab Master Control is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Tab Master Control if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Tab Master Control is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.