Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs

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

Tab Shelf is a feature-packed, 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 (or right-click on a tab and choose to group all tabs from the same site). - Save and restore tab groups and windows. - Choose from amongst 20 colors to differentiate your tab groups and windows. - Quickly search or filter your tabs by group, window, or whether they've got audio playing. - Duplicate tab detection and deletion (optional). - 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. Other Chromium-based browsers are not officially supported. ======================= CHANGELOG - v2025.3.0 ======================= NEW FEATURES - Session snapshotting and restoring now supported in the Saves menu. - An optional snapshot button can be enabled in the Action Bar (a more convenient way to take a session snapshot instead of going to the Sessions section of the Saves menu and clicking on the Snapshot button). - Added an option to automatically switch to a duplicate tab when closing its duplicates when filtering by duplicated tabs. IMPROVEMENTS - Reduced spacing in the UI. Tab groups will no longer have excess space around them. Padding and spacing within tabs in the default view have been reduced. Note that you can reduce this padding and spacing even further in compact mode. - Redesigned "Move to..." menu with a simpler, less cluttered layout. Whole tab groups can now be easily moved between windows via this menu. - Saves can now be sorted by alphabetical order or date added. BUG FIXES - Fixed memory leak issues with tab event handling. Memory and CPU usage should be improved. - Fixed issue where duplicate tab detection isn't being triggered immediately. - Fixed performance issues in duplicate tab detection engine. - Fixed issue where saved tab groups were not restored with the correct tab group color. - Fixed issue where picking a color for an existing tab group doesn't update the tab group color (the color picker also appeared to not register the selected color).