TabClub Memory Manager

Groups tabs by website into color-coded clubs, saves memory by auto-discarding inactive tabs, and offers a sleek dashboard.

🎯 TabClub Memory Manager — The Smartest Way to Organize Your Tabs & Save Memory Tired of drowning in dozens of open tabs? TabClub Memory Manager automatically organizes every tab you open into color-coded "clubs" by website — and then saves your memory by putting inactive tabs to sleep. No manual sorting, no clutter, no more RAM-hungry browsers. Just open tabs and let TabClub do the rest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ WHY TABCLUB? Every time you open a new tab, Chrome uses memory. 20 tabs? That's easily 2 GB of RAM gone. 50 tabs? Your computer slows to a crawl. TabClub solves both problems at once: • It automatically groups tabs from the same website together so your tab bar stays clean and organized. • It automatically discards (puts to sleep) tabs you haven't used in a while, freeing up hundreds of megabytes of RAM — without closing them. The result? A faster browser, a cleaner tab bar, and a calmer mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏠 CORE FEATURES ──────────────────────── 🔵 Automatic Tab Grouping ("Clubs") ──────────────────────── TabClub watches every tab you open and automatically groups tabs from the same website into a named, color-coded group — a "club." How it works: • Open two or more tabs from the same website (e.g., two GitHub pages) and TabClub instantly creates a "GitHub" club with a unique color. • Navigate a tab to a different website? TabClub detects the domain change, removes the tab from its old club, and adds it to the correct one. • Open a link from one site that redirects to another? TabClub handles cross-domain navigation seamlessly — the tab is re-grouped in real time. • Subdomains are intelligently merged: mail.google.com, docs.google.com, and drive.google.com all join the same "Google" club. • Country-code TLDs are handled too (e.g., .co.uk, .com.au, .co.in, .co.jp). • Drag a tab while it's being grouped? TabClub gracefully retries after the drag finishes — no errors, no interruptions. Each club gets: • A deterministic color from Chrome's 9 group colors (blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, grey) — the same website always gets the same color, so you build muscle memory over time. • A clean title derived from the domain name (e.g., "GitHub," "YouTube," "Reddit"). • The website's favicon displayed prominently in the popup dashboard. ──────────────────────── 💤 Automatic Memory Management ──────────────────────── Chrome tabs are memory-hungry. A single tab can use 50–150 MB of RAM. TabClub automatically frees that memory by "discarding" tabs you haven't looked at in a while. What does "discarding" mean? • The tab stays visible in your tab bar — it doesn't close. • But Chrome unloads its contents from memory, freeing up RAM. • When you click the tab again, it reloads instantly. • It's exactly like Chrome's built-in tab discarding, but smarter and automatic. How the memory manager works: • TabClub tracks the last time you viewed each tab. • Every minute, it checks if any tabs have been inactive longer than your configured timeout (default: 5 minutes). • Tabs that exceed the timeout are automatically discarded. • The active tab is never discarded — you'll never lose what you're working on. • Pinned tabs are protected by default (configurable). • Tabs playing audio are protected by default (configurable). • Internal browser pages (chrome://, about:, etc.) are always skipped. You can also manually trigger memory management: • Click "Free All Memory" in the popup to instantly discard every eligible inactive tab. • Click the sleep icon on any individual club to discard just that club's inactive tabs. Memory savings are displayed in real time: • The popup shows estimated memory saved (e.g., "392 MB saved"). • A visual memory bar shows current Chrome memory usage vs. what you've saved. • Stats include: total tabs, active tabs, sleeping tabs, and estimated savings. ──────────────────────── 📊 Beautiful Dashboard Popup ──────────────────────── Click the TabClub icon in your toolbar to open a sleek, modern dashboard that gives you full visibility into every open tab. The dashboard shows: • Memory stats bar — total tabs, active tabs, sleeping tabs, and estimated memory saved. • Estimated Chrome memory usage with a visual progress bar showing active memory vs. saved memory. • A list of every active club, each showing: — The website's favicon or a color-coded placeholder. — The club name and domain. — Tab count badge. — Save, sleep, and expand/collapse controls. Click any club to expand it and see all tabs inside, each showing: — The tab's favicon and title. — The URL path for quick identification. — Status badges: "Active" (green) or "Sleeping" (dimmed). — A close button to remove individual tabs. Click any tab to instantly switch to it. The popup closes and Chrome focuses that tab — even across windows. ──────────────────────── 💾 Save & Restore Groups ──────────────────────── Working on a research project? Tab session for a specific topic? Save it. • Click the save icon on any club to bookmark the entire group — all tab URLs and titles are preserved. • Saved groups appear in a collapsible "Saved Groups" section at the bottom of the popup. • Each saved group shows: the group name, tab count, time since it was saved (e.g., "2h ago"), and a "Restore" button. • Click "Restore" to reopen all tabs from a saved group instantly. • Delete saved groups you no longer need with the ✕ button. • Saved groups persist across browser sessions — they're stored in Chrome's local storage. This is perfect for: • Research sessions you want to return to later. • Work projects with specific sets of tabs. • Quick tab session bookmarking without using bookmarks folders. ──────────────────────── 🎨 Auto-Collapse: Focus Mode ──────────────────────── When you switch from one tab to another, TabClub automatically collapses the club you just left and expands the club you switched to. This keeps your tab bar tidy — only the tabs you're currently working with are visible. • Switch to a YouTube tab? The "YouTube" club expands and all other clubs collapse. • Switch to a GitHub tab? "GitHub" expands, "YouTube" collapses. • This behavior is fully automatic and can be toggled off in settings. This "focus mode" grouping means your tab bar never feels overwhelming, even with 50+ tabs open. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ SETTINGS & CUSTOMIZATION TabClub includes a full-featured settings page with the following options: 🎨 Appearance • Theme: Choose between Dark mode, Light mode, or System (follows your OS preference). • Both themes are carefully designed for readability and comfort. 💤 Memory Management • Auto-sleep timeout: Set anywhere from 1 minute to 60 minutes. Tabs inactive longer than this are automatically discarded. Default: 5 minutes. • Protect pinned tabs: When enabled (default), pinned tabs are never auto-discarded. • Protect tabs playing audio: When enabled (default), tabs with active audio playback are never auto-discarded. Perfect for background music or podcasts. 📁 Grouping Behavior • Auto-collapse inactive clubs: When enabled (default), switching tabs automatically collapses all other clubs. Disable if you prefer to keep multiple clubs expanded. • Group single tabs: When enabled, even a single tab from a domain can form a club. When disabled (default behavior), a club is only created when 2+ tabs from the same domain are open. All settings are saved instantly and apply immediately — no need to restart the extension or the browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS TabClub Memory Manager values your privacy: • No data collection: TabClub does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. Everything stays on your device. • No analytics: There are no tracking scripts, analytics SDKs, or telemetry of any kind. • No external network requests: TabClub never communicates with any external server. All processing happens locally in your browser. • No content scripts: TabClub does not inject any code into web pages you visit. It only uses Chrome's built-in tabs and tab groups APIs. Permissions explained: • tabs: Required to read tab URLs, titles, and manage tab grouping and discarding. • tabGroups: Required to create, update, and manage Chrome's native tab groups. • storage: Required to save your settings, favicon cache, and saved groups locally. • alarms: Required to run the periodic memory check (every 1 minute) that auto-discards inactive tabs. • host_permissions (*://*/*): Required to access favicons from any website so they can be displayed in the popup dashboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 USE CASES 🧑‍💻 For Developers You have 15 GitHub tabs, 8 Stack Overflow tabs, 5 documentation tabs, and a few localhost tabs. TabClub groups them all into neat, color-coded clubs. When you're deep in GitHub, the other clubs collapse out of the way. Old Stack Overflow tabs you haven't touched in 10 minutes? Automatically put to sleep, freeing up 400+ MB of RAM. 📚 For Researchers & Students Working on a paper with tabs from Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, and your university library? Each source gets its own club. Save the entire session before closing Chrome, and restore it tomorrow with one click. 🏢 For Professionals Managing tabs across Gmail, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and Google Docs? TabClub keeps them organized without any effort. Switch between projects by switching between clubs. Your email club auto-collapses when you focus on your project management tabs. 🎵 For Casual Browsing YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and news sites all get their own clubs. Audio tabs are protected so your music keeps playing. Everything else slowly goes to sleep, keeping your browser fast even during marathon browsing sessions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS • Built with Manifest V3 - the latest Chrome extension platform for maximum security and performance. • Service worker architecture - the background engine runs efficiently without a persistent background page. • Race-condition-proof grouping - a global queue system ensures tabs are never double-grouped or lost during rapid tab creation. • Smart drag detection - if you drag a tab while TabClub is grouping, it gracefully retries instead of throwing errors. • Deterministic color assignment - the same website always gets the same group color, so you build visual muscle memory. • Efficient favicon caching - favicons are cached locally and persist across sessions, with automatic pruning to prevent unbounded growth (max 200 entries). • Debounced storage writes - rapid tab opening doesn't cause excessive disk writes; storage operations are intelligently batched. • Stale group cleanup - if Chrome removes an empty group, TabClub detects it and cleans up its internal state automatically. • Lightweight- the entire extension is under 100 KB. No external libraries, no frameworks, no bloat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 GETTING STARTED 1. Install TabClub Memory Manager from the Chrome Web Store. 2. Open a few tabs from the same website - you'll see them automatically grouped into a color-coded club. 3. Click the TabClub icon in your toolbar to see the dashboard with all your clubs and memory stats. 4. Adjust your preferred timeout, theme, and grouping settings from the Settings page. 5. That's it - TabClub runs silently in the background, keeping your tabs organized and your memory free. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 TIPS • Set a shorter timeout (1-3 minutes) if you're a power user with 50+ tabs — aggressive memory savings. • Set a longer timeout (15-30 minutes) if you frequently switch between many tabs and don't want them reloading. • Pin important tabs (like Gmail or Slack) and enable "Protect pinned tabs" to ensure they never sleep. • Use "Save" on clubs you need for later — it's faster than bookmarking individual tabs. • The "Free All Memory" button is your best friend when Chrome starts feeling sluggish. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Powered by YuvaTech TabClub Memory Manager is designed and developed by YuvaTech Solutions USA. We build tools that make your browser experience faster, cleaner, and more productive. 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