Tab Guardian

Smart, local-first duplicate tab and workspace management.

Find the pages you need, reduce duplicate tabs, and save your work for later. Tab Guardian brings your open tabs, saved workspaces, and recently closed pages together in a convenient Chrome side panel. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Search open tabs and saved pages across windows. Switch to an existing tab instead of opening another copy, or restore a recently closed tab or window. You can also save pages for later and add tags to make them easier to find. HANDLE DUPLICATES WITH CARE Tab Guardian detects equivalent pages and suggests an existing tab. Automatic reuse is off by default and can be enabled for individual sites. Before an automatic close, the extension checks for protected or unknown states. Actions that close tabs have an Undo option. ORGANIZE WORK INTO WORKSPACES Save related pages together as a workspace, add or remove members, and restore missing pages when you return. Tab Guardian can suggest relevant workspaces based on shared resources, task identifiers, projects, titles, and opener relationships. Optional automatic assignment is off by default and only applies to strong matches. FIND MORE WHEN YOU NEED IT Optionally enable Chrome History access to search matching visits from the previous 180 days. History searches run on your device and their results are not retained by Tab Guardian. BUILT FOR LOCAL-FIRST USE Tab and workspace management runs locally by default. Optional AI recommendations are off by default and require a manual request. Before sending a request to your chosen provider, you can preview the page titles, site names, project identifiers, and workspace names included. Full URLs and page contents are not sent. Tab Guardian also recognizes GitLab merge requests, issues, and pipelines on GitLab.com and configured self-managed instances, while keeping distinct views separate. Restoring a page does not guarantee recovery of unsaved form contents or its previous running state.