Here are five Chromium and Firefox compatible extensions to help you catch up.
Absorbed by your research for a few hours, the table offered by your browser is not very pretty to see:
There are three open windows, fifty tabs in each, duplicates not to know what to do with, and performance close to nothing.
Organizing your tabs is a daily challenge for those who work or surf the web regularly. A pain that Vivaldi strives to relieve thanks to the batteries ( Tab Stacks ).
Unfortunately for users of other browsers, this functionality does not exist anywhere else.
Today, Chrome only allows tabs to be group by color, Opera offers to partition them into custom spaces, and Firefox has long since buried its Panorama manager.
However, many browser extensions make it easier to manage and organize overloaded tab bars.
Here are five compatible extensions to manage your tabs on Chrome and Firefox with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and Chromium-based browsers like the new Edge, Opera, and Brave.
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Workona
Workona is a bit like the Rolls of tab managers.
Available on Chrome and Firefox, the extension is inspired by what collaborative work platforms like Teams or Slack do to offer a very complete, perfectly structured organization space.
The creation of an account is necessary to take advantage of Workona.
A prerequisite that will scold some, but that we prefer to consider as an asset since it ensures the synchronization of user data.
Therefore, everyone can find their active, logged, and saved groups of tabs, regardless of the device from which they connect.
The switch between Chrome and Firefox would go almost unnoticed.
Once installed, Workona is on to the top of the browser tab bar. It is then accessed quickly, without rummaging through all the open tabs or going through the plug-in icon.
The extension dashboard splits into three distinct areas: a utility column, a panel listing recent browsing sessions and saved tab groups, and a visualization write for us block detailing the content of these groups and associated resources.
You will understand that Workona allows you to sort and organize your active or recently closed tabs by groups. Each group of pages opens in a new browser window.
Moving a page from one group to another effectively moves the tab from one window to another.
It is possible to share a group with work colleagues.
Such as manually adding documents, links, or any other attachment deemed valuable.
Still for the sake of fluidity, the integration of applications such as GitHub, Google Docs, and Zoom centralizes daily work tools.
To optimize the performance of the browser, Workona manages the sleep of inactive or just restored tabs.
Duplicate Tabs Closer for Chromium and Firefox
Internet users with a thousand open tabs know it: duplicates are a plague.
And when you juggle ninety-five pages, thirty-six of which refer to the same site, that the tab bar is not wide enough to display a piece of the title.
Which the browser threatens to render the soul and blame once more for its chronic disorganization.
The only solution is often to shut everything down. Even if it means not seeing anything there, you might as well see nothing at all.
However, reaching the point of no return is not inevitable, and some modules like Duplicate Tabs Closer make it easier to clear out a crowded tab bar.
On Chrome, as on Firefox, Duplicate Tabs Closer can be found in the extensions manager, to the left of the address bar.
A click on the icon, and there is a whole series of parameters that anyone can modify at will to get rid of duplicates immediately: priority, correspondence rules, frame.
In detail, you can choose to keep the tab secured by https, ignore the URL’s case and the hash, search, and path parts, compare the title.
Or even determine the scope of detection of duplicates (active window or all open windows).
The list of identical tabs will display in this same dialog box from where they can be closed one by one or simultaneously.
Duplicate Tabs Closer can automatically close duplicates after configuration, always respecting the priority, correspondence, and frame parameters defined upstream.
Keepin ‘tabs
Do not look for many options and possibilities for customization. Keepin ‘Tabs focuses on efficiency, and it owes its success to its simplicity.
First and foremost intended for users whose web practices relate to traditional use (research, documentation, entertainment).
This extension for Chrome groups all the tabs open in a popup. One could fear the same effect, but the first advantage of such a solution lies in the possibility of viewing the full title of the open pages.
Useful when a well-loaded tab bar only shows the favicons of the sites consulted.
Better yet: the expanded view ventilates the display, allowing you to view the associated URL address.
However, it is the alphabetical ordering of open pages that makes Keepin ‘Tabs a surfing ally.
Domain names in the active window reorganize a click on the AZ icon in the popup and the open tabs.
And if this list is still too long to hope to find a specific page, an integrated search engine manages the keyword queries in the URLs as in the page titles.
Tab Manager Plus for Chromium and Firefox
We could blame it for a slightly outdated design. Even so, Tab Manager Plus convinces with its flexibility, customization options, and nifty features.
Whether on Chrome or Firefox, Tab Manager Plus will deploy in a floating window accessible via the extension icon.
The home page includes all the tabs opened by the window.
The display parameters adapt to the preferences of each one, allowing to visualize the modules in the form of more or less voluminous blocks, summarizing the open pages to their strict favicon, or delivering the text of the <title> tag.
Drag-and-drop support facilitates the reorganization of tabs within the same window or from one window to another.
Beyond these certainly practical functionalities but, after all, elementary, Tab Manager Plus embeds a series of creative options, which sets the extension apart from the competition.
With a simple right-click, you select several tabs from different windows to move them in an existing window, open them in a new window, suspend their loading, or delete them.
The integrated search engine automatically selects the tabs corresponding to a keyword or a specific domain.
We also keep the possibility of hiding open pages not concerned by clicking on the Eye icon.
In fact, the layout gains clarity when the Internet user becomes more efficient.
Finally, and this is arguably one of the most interesting plug-in settings, Tab Manager Plus allows you to set a limit of tabs per window.
Once it reaches this number, the new pages open in a new window without manual intervention.
Search all Tabs in Chromium and Firefox
Search all Tabs is aimed primarily at those whose memory fails past a certain number of open tabs, on Chrome as on Firefox.
Rather than going through each page of each window searching for an article or specific information, the extension acts as a search engine, indexing the contents of open and active tabs (therefore not suspended) in a popup.
By clicking on the plug-in icon near the address bar, the user accesses a standard input field in which he types the term (s) of his request.
Like any powerful search engine, Search all Tabs supports “AND” or “OR” type commands. The results reported are ranked in order of relevance.
The simple fact of clicking on one of these proposals redirects the Internet user to the concerned tab.
By the same token, the extension takes care to highlight the text in which the initially searched terms appear.
We specify here that Search all Tabs chooses not to store anything on its servers.
Hence the few seconds of latency that persist even when the request is complete.
Unlike the tools presented so far, Search all Tabs has minimal configuration tools.
A seemingly surprising choice, but to which we fully support: delivered turnkey, the extension is perfectly functional as it is.
However, it is still possible to modify the type of text to you index (page titles, content, or both).
