TabWall — Live Visual Tab Manager

Live tab previews, synced workspaces, page element monitoring, auto-reload, and optional Telegram alerts.

TabWall turns selected Chrome tabs into a live visual dashboard. See pages update together, switch to any tab with one click, and organize related pages in named workspaces that sync with Chrome. Workspaces save tabs, selected page regions, and scroll positions so you can return to where you left off. Reopen a workspace as a native Chrome tab group. If a saved tab navigates to a different URL, TabWall keeps it in the workspace and shows a URL changed badge. This includes search query changes, single-page app history routes, and hash routes; the badge clears when the tab returns to its saved URL. Auto-reload schedules and change-detection settings are restored when saved tabs reopen, including whether each feature was enabled or disabled. Monitor an entire tab, draw a custom area, or select a specific page element to track content and appearance changes. TabWall coordinates comparisons across reloads to reduce false alerts. Closed saved tabs remain visible and can be reopened, opened in Picture-in-Picture, reordered, or moved between workspaces. Open a closed tab's settings from its card to adjust page-loading behavior before reopening it. For tabs you choose, Telegram notifications can send a screenshot of a detected change to your own chat or channel. Configure the bot in Settings > Integrations, then enable Telegram notifications in each tab's change detector. Screenshots are only transmitted when this option is enabled for that tab. FEATURES • Live tab previews: View selected Chrome tabs as preview cards that update while you work. • Quick switching: Click a card to focus its window and switch directly to that tab. • Flexible layout: Drag open previews and closed saved tabs to reorder them. The responsive wall adapts to your screen. • Synced workspaces: Save tabs and their selected preview regions in named workspaces. Create, rename, switch between, and restore them across Chrome instances when Chrome Sync is enabled. • URL change tracking: Keep navigated tabs with their workspace and identify URL changes, including History API routes, hash routes, and search queries. The badge clears when the URL returns to its saved address. • Recovered tab settings: Restore each saved tab's page-loading controls, auto-reload interval, and change-detection preferences, including enabled or disabled state, when tabs reopen. • Closed tab cards: Keep saved tabs visible after they close. Reopen them, open them in Picture-in-Picture, edit their page-loading settings, move them to another workspace, remove them, or reorder them. • Chrome tab groups: Open a saved workspace as a native Chrome tab group. • Text and visual change detection: Watch entire tabs, selected page elements, or custom areas for stable visible text, element appearance, or visual changes, with optional sound and pulsing alerts. Detection can wait for page loading, pending XHR/fetch requests, and scroll restoration to settle. • Reload-aware comparisons: Compare content across reloads, allow the preview to settle, account for small layout shifts, and suppress duplicate or insignificant reload-only changes, including non-content motion. • Bulk actions: Close or reload selected tabs, reopen saved tabs, create a Chrome tab group, and set change detection or auto-reload for selected tabs. • Scheduled auto-reload: Set an interval from 5 seconds up to 1 year for one tab or multiple selected tabs. Change or stop schedules at any time. Intervals of 30 seconds or longer continue while TabWall is closed; shorter intervals require TabWall to remain open. • Preview controls: Refresh, stop, or resume a preview without closing its tab. Stopped previews pause their scheduled auto-reload until resumed. • Full-page view: Expand one preview to focus on it, then press Esc to return to the wall. • Full-screen wall: Expand the TabWall page to use the entire screen. • Picture-in-Picture: Open one tab preview or the entire tab wall in a floating Document Picture-in-Picture window, where supported by Chrome. Window dimensions are remembered, while change detection and auto-reload status appear as compact icons and URL changes remain labeled. • Page elements and custom areas: Click a page element or draw a custom area to focus each preview. Selected page elements stay tracked as the page layout changes. • Media playback controls: Play or pause page media, seek by 5 seconds, and use previous or next track controls when the page provides them. • Adjustable preview quality and playback rate: Use Settings > General to change image quality and playback frame rate; changes apply to active previews. • Per-tab loading controls: Choose whether TabWall waits for asynchronous page data and whether requests to other origins should delay readiness. • Development diagnostic logs: Save page-load, request, change-detection, and selected-element location checkpoints to a chosen file. Starting a log from a closed saved-tab card reopens the tab before navigating so the next page load is captured. • Workspace card moves: Move open or saved cards directly between named workspaces without having to recreate them. • Optional Telegram change photos: Enter a bot token and chat/channel ID under Settings > Integrations, then enable Notify via Telegram for the tabs you want. A confirmed change sends a newly captured screenshot of the tab, page element, or custom area, with the tab title and URL as a caption. • One TabWall page: The toolbar button returns you to the existing TabWall page instead of opening another copy. PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS TabWall uses the tabs permission to list open tabs, the debugger permission to capture previews for tabs you select, and the webNavigation permission to track top-level URL changes such as History API routes and hash navigation. Change detection compares preview images, visible-text fingerprints, and selected element content or styles locally. It also tracks pending XHR/fetch request activity so detection can wait for pages to settle. Telegram notifications are optional and disabled for each tab unless the user enables both change detection and Notify via Telegram. When enabled and a change is confirmed, TabWall sends a JPEG screenshot of the tab, selected page element, or custom area, together with the tab title and page URL, to the user's specified Telegram chat or channel using Telegram's Bot API over HTTPS (api.telegram.org). The image may contain sensitive information from the page. This data is shared with Telegram and the chosen chat or channel, which may retain it under their own policies. Without this opt-in, TabWall does not send change screenshots or related captions to Telegram. TabWall stores preview settings, selected page regions, scroll positions, Picture-in-Picture dimensions, paused auto-reload state, auto-reload schedules, per-tab loading controls, and change-detection preferences in Chrome's local extension storage. Telegram bot tokens and destination IDs are also kept in Chrome's local extension storage, not Chrome Sync. Named workspaces use Chrome Sync to keep saved tabs, URL change markers, and preview regions available across Chrome instances when Sync is enabled. The alarms permission runs auto-reload schedules of 30 seconds or longer while the TabWall page is closed. Shorter intervals run in the TabWall page and require it to stay open. The contextMenus, activeTab, and scripting permissions support the page-region selection tool. The narrow https://api.telegram.org/* host permission is used only to send optional, user-enabled change notifications through Telegram's Bot API. Some Chrome-protected pages may not allow previews or region selection.