TabDog Bridge

Connect your browser tabs to TabDog - a powerful macOS menu bar app for managing all your tabs across browsers

TabDog Bridge — Your Browser's Best Friend on the Menu Bar TabDog Bridge is a companion extension that connects your browser to TabDog, a powerful macOS menu bar application. Together, they give you instant access to all your browser tabs without leaving your current workflow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHY TABDOG? Ever found yourself drowning in browser tabs? You're not alone. Modern browsing means dozens of tabs across multiple windows, making it nearly impossible to find what you need. TabDog solves this by bringing all your tabs to your fingertips — right in your macOS menu bar. No more hunting through windows. No more squinting at tiny tab titles. Just click, search, and go. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 📋 UNIFIED TAB VIEW • See all your tabs in one organized list • View tab titles, URLs, domains, and favicons • Tabs grouped by domain for easy navigation • Works across all browser windows 🔍 INSTANT SEARCH • Find any tab instantly by typing • Search by title, URL, or domain • Filter tabs by browser (Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc.) • Jump to the right tab in seconds ⚡ QUICK ACTIONS • Activate any tab with a single click • Close tabs individually or by domain • Keyboard shortcuts for power users • Recently closed tabs for quick recovery ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST Your privacy matters. TabDog Bridge: ✓ Works 100% locally — no data sent to any server ✓ Uses Native Messaging to communicate only with the local TabDog app ✓ Does not collect, sell, or share your browsing data ✓ No analytics, no tracking, no cloud storage ✓ Open source — verify the code yourself The only data stored is tab creation timestamps (locally in your browser) to enable the "sort by time" feature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ HOW IT WORKS TabDog Bridge uses Chrome's Native Messaging API to create a secure, local-only connection with the TabDog macOS app. This means: 1. The extension collects basic tab info (title, URL, favicon) 2. Data is sent to the TabDog app via stdio (local pipe) 3. TabDog displays your tabs in a beautiful menu bar interface 4. Commands flow back to open, close, or activate tabs No internet required. No external servers. Just your browser and your Mac talking directly to each other. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SUPPORTED BROWSERS TabDog Bridge automatically detects and works with: • Google Chrome • Brave Browser • Microsoft Edge • Opera • Vivaldi • Other Chromium-based browsers You can even connect multiple browsers simultaneously and manage all tabs from a single unified interface! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ GETTING STARTED 1. Download TabDog from tabdog.app (macOS app required) 2. Install this extension 3. Open TabDog Settings and click "Setup Connection" 4. Restart your browser once 5. Click the TabDog icon in your menu bar — your tabs are ready! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TabDog is built for keyboard warriors: • Cmd + Shift + D — Open up TabDog menu • ↑/↓ — Navigate through tabs/apps • Enter — Activate selected tab/app • C — Close selected tab/app or domain group • H — Minimize selected app • Tab — Switch between Browser/Windows mode • Escape — Return to search • Type to search instantly ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 BONUS: WINDOW MANAGEMENT TabDog isn't just for browser tabs! The macOS app also includes a Window Manager that lets you: • View all running applications • See CPU and memory usage per app • Hide, minimize, or quit apps • Switch between apps instantly • Track recently quit apps for quick relaunch One app to rule them all. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED • tabs: Read tab information (title, URL, favicon) and control tabs • storage: Save tab creation times locally for sorting features • nativeMessaging: Communicate with the TabDog macOS app That's it. No host permissions. No access to your browsing content. No network requests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 OPEN SOURCE TabDog is open source and available on GitHub. Feel free to: • Review the code • Report issues • Suggest features • Contribute improvements GitHub Link: https://github.com/sung01299/tabdog ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 SUPPORT Having issues? Questions? Feedback? • Check our GitHub repository for documentation • Open an issue for bug reports • Star the project if you find it useful! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIREMENTS • macOS 13 Ventura or later • TabDog macOS app (free download) • Chrome 116 or later ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Take control of your tabs. Download TabDog today. 🐕 Your tabs. Your way. Your menu bar.