Nonlinear Browser

Representing browser tabs in a tree for contextual thought

Nonlinear Browser replaces Chrome's flat tab bar with a compact, indented tree in your side panel. Every tab you open from another tab becomes a child of it — so your browsing context stays visible instead of getting buried. ── TREE STRUCTURE ── Tabs nest under the page that opened them. A research rabbit hole looks like a rabbit hole. Close a branch and all its children go with it. Reorder anything by dragging. ── SPACES ── Each Chrome window is a Space —named, collapsible, and color-coded by which one has your active tab. Switch between projects by collapsing the spaces you're not using. Rename any space with a single click. ── SUSPEND TO SAVE RAM ── Right-click any tab (or a whole branch) to suspend it. The tab is removed from Chrome's memory but stays in your tree as a ghost. Click it to resume exactly where you were. Useful for keeping reference tabs around without paying the RAM cost. ── PIN STRIP ── 10 pin slots at the top for tabs you return to constantly — dashboards, email, docs. Ctrl+Shift+1/2/3 jumps to the first three from anywhere. Pins survive browser restarts. ── MULTI-SELECT ── Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click to select multiple tabs. Drag the whole selection to move them together. Close all selected tabs at once from the selection bar. Or use the ☐ select-mode button to select with plain clicks. ── SEARCH ── Type to filter. Matches on title, URL, and any custom name you've given a tab. Non-matching tabs fade out; their ancestors stay visible so you keep context. ── KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ── Ctrl+Shift+Y — open/close the side panel Ctrl+Shift+1/2/3 — focus pinned tabs 1, 2, 3 Ctrl+Z — undo the last tab close Slots 4–10 configurable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts ── RAM BADGES ── Tabs using ≥150MB show a live badge. Helps you spot which tab is the memory culprit before deciding what to suspend. ── NO CLOUD, NO TRACKING ── Everything is stored locally in your browser. No account, no sync server, no analytics. Your tab tree never leaves your device. ── NOTES ── • To open local files (file:///), enable "Allow access to file URLs" for the extension at chrome://extensions • Ctrl+Shift+1-3 are global shortcuts — they work even when the side panel is closed