Locksy - Tab Locker & Password Protection



Overview
Protect your sensitive tabs with military-grade password security. Lock any tab instantly with ultimate SHA-256 + Salt encryption.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHY YOU NEED LOCKSY? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Do you work in shared spaces? Need to step away from your computer but have sensitive information open? Worried about someone seeing your personal tabs when you share your screen? Locksy is your solution. Locksy provides enterprise-level tab protection that ensures only YOU can access your locked tabs. Whether it's banking information, confidential work documents, personal messages, or private research - Locksy keeps your tabs secure with password protection that can't be bypassed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Lock current tab instantly - Alt+Shift+9 (customizable) • Open Domain Lock Manager - Alt+Shift+0 • Lock all tabs in window - Alt+Shift+8 • Smart notifications for every action • Automatic safety checks (password, activation status) • Bulk operations with instant feedback • Fully customizable shortcuts in browser settings 🎨 VISUAL INDICATORS • Lock icon on tab favicon - See locked tabs at a glance • Badge counter on extension icon - Shows number of locked tabs • Dynamically generated lock icons • Real-time updates across all operations • Persists across browser restarts • Original favicon automatically restored on unlock 🌐 DOMAIN LOCK FEATURE • Lock entire domains with one click - all matching tabs automatically protected • Wildcard subdomain support (*.google.com locks all Google services) • Exact domain matching (github.com locks only GitHub) • Auto-lock new tabs that match locked domain patterns • Smart unlock options: - Unlock This Tab Only (temporary exemption) - Unlock All Domain Tabs (unlock current open tabs) - Remove Domain Lock (completely remove domain protection) • Customizable unlock preferences per domain • Persistent across browser restarts • Dedicated Domain Lock Manager interface 🔐 ONE-CLICK TAB LOCKING • Lock any website tab with a single click • Password-protected overlay covers entire page • Unlock only by entering correct master password • Persistent locks survive page refreshes and navigation 🛡️ MILITARY-GRADE SECURITY • Salted SHA-256 password hashing - Maximum protection against rainbow table attacks • Each password gets a unique 128-bit cryptographic salt • Industry-standard encryption that's virtually unbreakable • No plain text password storage - only secure salted hashes • Current password verification required for changes • Brute force protection with automatic lockout • No administrative bypass or backdoor access • XSS prevention with safe DOM methods ⚡ SMART USER FEEDBACK • Instant notifications for all lock attempts • Clear error messages for restricted pages • Success confirmations when tabs lock successfully • Domain lock status indicators • Keyboard shortcut action feedback • No more silent failures or confusion 🔄 SERVICE WORKER PERSISTENCE • Locked tabs remain protected even after browser sleep • Domain locks automatically restored after inactivity • Automatic state restoration after service worker wake-up • Badge counter persists across sessions • Continuous security without manual intervention 🕶️ INCOGNITO MODE SUPPORT • Works seamlessly in private browsing windows • Same master password for normal and incognito tabs • Enable in extension settings with one click 🎨 MODERN, INTUITIVE INTERFACE • Clean gradient-based design with professional Locksy logo • Real-time password strength indicator • Smooth animations and visual feedback • Easy toggle to activate/deactivate extension • Keyboard shortcuts info panel in popup • Dedicated Domain Lock Manager window ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY GUARANTEE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ 100% Offline Operation - No external servers or data transmission ✅ Zero Tracking - No analytics, cookies, or user tracking ✅ Local Storage Only - All data stays on your device ✅ GDPR/CCPA Compliant - Complete privacy policy included ✅ Open Source - Transparent code available on GitHub ✅ No Permissions Abuse - Only essential permissions requested ✅ Rainbow Table Protection - Unique salts prevent precomputed attacks ✅ XSS Protection - Secure DOM methods prevent code injection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 Shared Computers - Protect tabs when others use your PC 🏢 Office Environments - Secure sensitive work tabs and entire work domains ☕ Public Spaces - Lock tabs at cafes, libraries, airports 👨👩👧 Family Computers - Keep personal tabs private 🏦 Banking & Finance - Lock entire banking domain for maximum security 📧 Email & Social Media - Protect all email/social media tabs at once 🔐 Password Managers - Secure your password vault tabs and domains 🎓 Students - Lock school portal domains during shared screen presentations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Individual Tab Lock: 1️⃣ Click the Locksy icon in your browser toolbar 2️⃣ Activate the extension with the toggle switch 3️⃣ Set your master password (8+ characters recommended) 4️⃣ Navigate to any tab you want to protect 5️⃣ Click "🔒 Lock Current Tab" button (or press Alt+Shift+9) 6️⃣ Tab is now secured with password overlay and lock icon 7️⃣ Enter password on the tab to unlock Domain Lock: 1️⃣ Click "🌐 Domain Lock" in the Locksy popup (or press Alt+Shift+0) 2️⃣ Enter domain pattern (e.g., "github.com" or "*.google.com") 3️⃣ Click "Add Domain Lock" 4️⃣ All current and future tabs matching the domain are automatically locked 5️⃣ Manage locked domains in Domain Lock Manager 6️⃣ Choose unlock preference for each domain Keyboard Shortcuts: • Alt+Shift+9 - Lock current tab instantly • Alt+Shift+0 - Open Domain Lock Manager • Alt+Shift+8 - Lock all tabs in current window • Customize at chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 WHAT MAKES LOCKSY DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Power User Features - Pre-configured keyboard shortcuts that work out-of-the-box - Visual lock indicators on tab favicons - Badge counter showing locked tabs count - Bulk operations (lock all tabs with one keystroke) - Fully customizable shortcuts Revolutionary Domain Protection - Lock entire domains with wildcard support - Auto-lock new tabs matching domain patterns - Flexible unlock options (tab-only, all tabs, remove lock) - Persistent domain locks across sessions Truly Secure - Salted SHA-256 password hashing - Unique 128-bit salt for each password - Protection against rainbow table attacks - Cryptographically secure random salt generation - XSS prevention with safe DOM manipulation - No bypass methods or backdoors - Service worker persistence (locks survive after browser sleep) Privacy Guaranteed - 100% offline operation - No telemetry or external servers - Zero data collection Smart & Reliable - Instant feedback on all actions - Clear explanations when tabs can't be locked - Auto-recovery after service worker sleep - Smart temporary exemptions for domain locks - Real-time visual updates Actually Works - Password required for all admin changes - Prevents all known bypass methods - Continuous protection without manual intervention - Domain locks persist across browser restarts - Badge counter updates automatically Production Ready - Optimized performance - Clean, tested, stable code - Regular security updates - Cross-browser compatibility (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • System pages (chrome://, edge://, about:) cannot be locked due to browser security restrictions • Extension pages and Chrome Web Store cannot be locked • All regular websites (http://, https://) can be locked successfully • Domain locks work with wildcards (*.domain.com) or exact matches (domain.com) • You'll receive clear feedback if a tab cannot be locked • Password cannot be recovered if forgotten - choose wisely! • Temporary exemptions for domain locks are cleared on tab close or browser restart • Keyboard shortcuts can be customized at chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Manifest V3 (Latest Chrome Extension Standard) • Salted SHA-256 Cryptographic Hashing • 128-bit Random Salt Generation via crypto.getRandomValues() • HTML5 Canvas API for Dynamic Favicon Generation • Chrome Commands API for Keyboard Shortcuts • WebExtension Polyfill for Cross-Browser Compatibility • Secure DOM Methods (XSS Prevention) • Advanced Pattern Matching Engine for Domain Locks • Chromium-based Browser Support (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera) • Lightweight Performance (Minimal CPU/Memory Usage) • Offline-First Architecture • Service Worker Persistence with Auto-Recovery • Secure Local Storage API • Wildcard Subdomain Support • Real-time Badge Counter System ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 VERSION 1.0.8 RELEASE (LATEST!) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🦊 MAJOR FEATURE: Cross-Browser Compatibility • WebExtension polyfill for seamless cross-browser operation • Unified codebase for all browsers 🔒 Security Enhancements • XSS Prevention - Replaced innerHTML with safe DOM methods • Secure element creation and manipulation • Enhanced protection against code injection attacks 📦 Technical Updates • WebExtension API compatibility layer • Cross-browser polyfill integration • Updated all HTML pages for browser compatibility ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆕 PREVIOUS VERSIONS HIGHLIGHTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Version 1.0.7 - Keyboard Shortcuts & Visual Indicators • Pre-configured keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+9/8/0) • Lock icon on tab favicon for visual identification • Badge counter on extension icon • Real-time visual updates across all operations • Smart notifications for keyboard actions Version 1.0.6 - Domain Lock System • Lock entire domains with wildcard support • Auto-lock new matching tabs • Smart unlock options (tab-only, all tabs, remove) • Persistent domain locks across sessions • Dedicated Domain Lock Manager ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 LINKS & SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 Official Website: https://locksy.dev 📖 Privacy Policy: https://locksy.dev/privacy-policy 🐛 Report Issues: https://github.com/vansh-121/Locksy/issues ⭐ GitHub Repository: https://github.com/vansh-121/Locksy 🎥 Tutorial Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uyd4sN5WiA 📧 Contact: vansh.sethi98760@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 Security is not a feature, it's a necessity. Locksy - Your Tabs, Your Password, Your Privacy. Made with ❤️ for Privacy & Security | © 2025 Locksy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ If you find Locksy useful, please leave a 5-star review and share it with others who value their privacy!
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Details
- Version1.0.8
- UpdatedDecember 19, 2025
- Size172KiB
- LanguagesEnglish
- DeveloperVansh SethiWebsite
Street. No. 01, Patel Nagar Malout, Punjab 152107 INEmail
vansh.sethi98760@gmail.com - Non-traderThis developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.
Privacy
Locksy - Tab Locker & Password Protection has disclosed the following information regarding the collection and usage of your data. More detailed information can be found in the developer's privacy policy.
Locksy - Tab Locker & Password Protection handles the following:
This developer declares that your data is
- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
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