Tabs for Google Chrome™

Manage your tabs using tiles - beneficial for extensive monitors and full-screen (F11) browsing.

Tabs for Google Chrome™ – Tab Tiles for Big Screens and Full-Screen Browsing Tabs for Google Chrome™ turns your open tabs into a row of large, easy-to-read tiles that live right inside the web page you are viewing. Instead of squinting at tiny tab strips that shrink to nothing once you have twenty pages open, you get a clean bar of tiles, each showing the site's favicon and title, that you can see, click, and rearrange from anywhere in the browser window. It was built for people who work on large or ultra-wide monitors, and for anyone who likes to browse in full-screen (F11) mode where Chrome's own tab bar disappears entirely. WHY TAB TILES? Chrome hides its tab strip in full-screen mode and, on a big display, the standard tabs sit far away at the very top edge of the screen. Tabs for Google Chrome™ solves both problems at once. The tile bar can be shown at the top or the bottom of the window, and it works in restored, maximized and full-screen windows, so your tabs are always one glance and one click away, no matter how you have Chrome arranged. KEY FEATURES • Tab tiles inside the page – Every open tab in the current window is displayed as a tile with its icon and title. Click a tile to switch to that tab, middle-click or use the close button to close it, and drag tiles to reorder your tabs. The bar updates instantly as tabs are opened, closed, moved or renamed. • Works in full-screen (F11) mode – Keep browsing with the whole screen and still see and switch tabs. Ideal for presentations, kiosk-style setups, media viewing and distraction-free reading. • Auto-hide and mini mode – Let the bar shrink to a slim mini mode when you are not using it, or hide it completely and reveal it by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. You choose the auto-hide delay in milliseconds, or set it to zero for instant hiding, and you can make the activation zone just one pixel high so it never gets in the way. • Built-in address and search bar – Type a web address or a search phrase directly into the tile bar. Choose Google, Bing, Yahoo! or your own custom search provider, and decide whether results and addresses open in the current tab or a new one. • Keyboard navigation and type-to-search – Move between tiles with the keyboard and jump to a tab simply by typing part of its title. Both can be turned off independently if you prefer a mouse-only experience. • Mouse-wheel scrolling – When you have more tabs than fit across the bar, scroll through them with the mouse wheel. Choose slow, normal or fast sensitivity. • Configurable homepage buttons – Set a main homepage for the New Tab and Home buttons, plus an alternate homepage that opens on right-click. Use Chrome's New Tab page, Google, or any URL you like. • Fully adjustable size and position – Set the bar's usual height as a percentage of the window, with minimum and maximum pixel limits, and decide how far it shrinks in mini mode. Choose the top or bottom of the window, center the tiles, enlarge the New Tab button, and optionally hide the horizontal scrollbar. • Themes and appearance – Pick from several colour themes, choose a transparent or translucent bar background, enable or disable the hover hint popup, switch to the classic colour scheme, and control the text shadow on the selected tile. • Multilingual – The interface is available in more than forty languages. PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS Tabs for Google Chrome™ asks only for what it needs. The "tabs" permission lets it read tab titles and URLs so it can draw the tiles and switch between them; the "favicon" permission lets it display each site's icon; and the "storage" permission saves your settings locally. The extension does not collect, transmit or sell any browsing data, does not load code from remote servers, and contains no advertising or tracking. Everything runs locally in your browser. GETTING STARTED 1. Install the extension and open any web page. 2. The tile bar appears at the bottom of the window (or the top, if you change it). Move your mouse over it to expand it. 3. Click the toolbar icon to open the options page. Adjust when the bar is shown, its size, auto-hide behaviour, search provider and theme, then click Save Changes. 4. Press F11 to go full screen and enjoy tabs that stay visible. Every setting can be reset to its default with one click, and a tutorial link is available from the options page. Tabs for Google Chrome™ is free, lightweight and open to all. Install it today and make your tabs work for you, not against you.